>>13663060If we believe in the big bang and the singularity still (opinion is divided now), I would say absolutely there was nothing before. The idea of before is nonsensical because before is a concept in time, and does not apply outside of time.
I would also say there still IS nothing and I think that is what we wrongly think of as "consciousness". I could elaborate at great length desu.
I think perhaps if there was such a singularity, it contained the entirety of the universe and its events from start to finish, and the big bang is merely a stretching out of this superimposed point into space and time. Space and time is prerequisite for experience to take place, and so when people discuss the miniscule odds of this universe sustaining life... Well I would say it is a 100% certainty that we would eventually end up in such a universe, because all universes that could not sustain any perceiving mind would obviously never be perceived.