>>14006067Because you want what doesn't physically exist to exist as something definable, a phenomena. Which is fine if you can actually show some intuition or explain how it's "self evident".
You can do that with love, hate...the intangible things that seem to manipulate us the physical meatbag. You can even show the empirical evidence in the actions of how our bodies react to such emotions, you can't pin point it exactly but you *feel* it is there. You can't point to it..but a shadow is different how it "manipulates" us in the way where you can actually "point to it", but still not be able to define it. Yes you see it, yes you can measure and feel the effects...but that is just because you are not in light.
The difference? One does something. The other cannot do a thing/is defined by everything else other than itself. Love, hate, the intangible emotions have basically spawned society, the invention and everything else that the needy emotional human needs. Were we not emotional we'd be base animals still feeding on raw meat from feral creatures.
The shadow? What does it *do*? It does nothing, "for it is not". The absence of light, what causes the properties for existence in the first place. The light is *what does*.
Defined by everything it is not. Even the darkest "shadow" is ultimately just light....less of it that is. You could not even find a true "shadow" to define by our own definition of the word
"an area of darkness caused when light is blocked by something".
Which happens nowhere. It doesn't exist.
