Eye sphincter sounds weird though.

Oh boy. Don’t look too deep into philosophy of language, or you might become convinced that “the iris” is just as nonexistent — or that all nouns are really about a symbolic existence as a relationship, for which measurable physical matter is inconsequential.

Could it not be said that “nothing” is actually a thing? 🤔

Never call someone a massive asshole, call them massless.

This is a great point! Humans can put names on things that aren’t there, such as holes!

This ‘naming of hole-like concepts’ may sound trivial, but there have been entire cultures that didn’t have ‘hole-like’ concepts and this stunted their ability to make certain discoveries. For example, the ancient Greeks could not have developed calculus; they did not have a concept of zero that they could use for mathematical manipulation. This shows an unfortunate reality: you can’t mentally manipulate ideas that you don’t have.

However, once you do have those ideas, they may seem obvious. This is a well documented human bias: the curse of knowledge. Once you understand something, it is very difficult to imagine not knowing that. For us, knowers of pupils, holes, zeros, and chasms, it may seem absurd to not have names for pupils, holes, zeros, and chasms. We take them for granted, when in reality it was not an easy road to arrive at them.

I mean we have lots of words for varying degrees and styles of “nothing”.

A chasm is the empty space between two chunks of the earths crust.

A void is just an empty space well… Void of all things.

An interval is just the time between two events. Technically it’s nothing.

Still a good shower thought. There aren’t a ton of words dedicated to the same phenomenon, but we have a handful.