Occurred to me last night that this concept is incredibly complex. It relies upon that well examined feature here now called “emergent property”. When we make something we are relying upon the feature of the world that what we end up with is different from what we started with. Yet in material terms this is absurd since you can’t make matter or energy. We conclude rather paradoxically that when we make something we actually make nothing!
This is the source of the ancient observation that the “world” is made from nothing. This because the “world” is not to be counted as the matter or stuff (in its modern conception) in the universe but rather the emergent forms into which this is made.
Did God then make the stuff of the universe or the forms?
Man can make forms. One assumes that God makes matter.
From Buddhism however we know that there is no such thing as matter – at best it is a form (idea) made in the mind. After all how can you separate the matter of the universe from the form? What is pure matter (matter without form) is like asking what shape is water?
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