Agorabasta has suggested a very useful resource for use in the current discussion, at
www.consciousness.arizona.edu/hameroff/P...space_time/cajal.pdf
It touches upon many points; one for a layman's appetite may be the idea that the human brain operates on a co-existence of bottom-up and top-down processes. This appropriately places the human entity within the framework of an infinite interaction of scales that are infinitely large, and infinitely introspacial.
If nothingness underpins everything, perhaps the remnants of its preeminence remains concretely in our own subjective option to embrace it.
All natural phenomena appear to act in a fractal way, from galaxial superclusers to quantum phenomena (today, I noticed that whisps of smoke from my cigarette appear very much like galaxial superclusters in their filament structures).
For those familiar with fractial geometry, there is a necessary distinction between the function, and the void outside it; that is precisely what creates the fractal image in all its beauty. Both serve the same purpose: namely, to reveal an innate beauty in the existence of numbers (numbers being merely an agent of "harmony").
Thus, the "nothingness" theory really may be relevant, but merely to reveal an existence that is infinitely more real than the nothingness, knowing that it is separate, not contingent; it does not rely on it.
In the above analogy, a fractal mathematical projection is merely a projection into a space that was already predisposed to receive it. And I would propose that this is how matter functions as well.
In the end, the "nothingness" is subordinate to the "everything" in that wherever one may go, on whatever scale of microscopy or macroscopy, the "existence" will impose the itself on the behavior of whatever occupies the said space.
