Quote Originally Posted by Stoner Shadow Wolf
i wouldnt know lol i dont recognize the word "cartesian". it's not in my mental encyclopedia. hehe



why do you ask?
Descartes was a 17th century British philosopher who had the same theory you were talking about, known as "cartesian dualism". Kant apparently debunked the theory which is accepted by most philosophers today, though it's not necessarily false since as quantum physics has recently shown (and as the Buddha earlier proposed), matter, energy, and supposedly "non-existence" in the fabric of universal space-time are not actually separate types of existence, but different manifestations of the same fabric of universal reality. All matter is energy, all energy is actually force fields, those force fields are merely space-time fluctuations in a consistent state, space-time itself is manifestation of the laws of the fabric of reality. Hence, and why I stated earlier, it's not a simple case of "something" coming out of "nothing", because the two aren't separate entities. This also explains what gravity is and why it acts the way it does.
Now I did read Stephen Hawking's explanation of how the first space-time fluctuation occured to create "existence", but it was many years ago and I can't really remember now. All I remember is something to do with subatomic matter and anti-matter particles appearing for about 1/1,000 of a second then disappearing from canceling each other out, and how this process could be interrupted to allow the first matter particle to remain in existence.