What does non-existence look like?

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How would you draw it? I'm not talking about emptiness. I mean nothingness. Emptiness is empty space. What I'm asking about is a state where even space doesn't exist. Matter doesn't exist but even if it did there'd be no space for it to occupy. What would that kind of nothingness look like? Could somebody paint me a picture (a literal picture)?

To start off, I remember the English version of Final Fantasy VI where Kefka said he would "build a monument to non-existence." I always wondered what that would like.

"nothingness", and "nonexistence", are two different things.

Nonexistence is the state in which something ( a particular thing) does not exist.

Nothingness is the state in which nothing at all exists.

To illustrate nonexistence simply draw a pic of a mythical creature that does not exist ( a unicorn, a chimera, a griffin, a job that pays a living wage,a cold fusion reactor, anything fantastic like that).

To illustrate nothingness draw the symbol for "the empty set". That zero with the slash through it thing.

probly a lot like a k hole

Is this actually some sort of art project?

The first thing that comes to my mind is something like a black hole, which isn't exactly "nothingness" I s'pose, but it's the first thing that pops into my head when I think about it. lol

Remember that time before you were born? There you go.

I would paint an exploding brain because it is a concept that is impossible to imagine as we have no possible way to conceptualise it and to try would do my head in. Many physicists believe that a state of nothingness can never exist.

From a subjective perspective it is what you know of the universe and of yourself when you are in a deep sleep state.

maybe the space between one thought and the next thought. Or more specifically the point just prior to becoming aware of a thought. Not a complete thought, but the initial fragment of a segment that might become a complete thought.