Nothingness is defined as the complete absence of all properties, including the property of existing. For Nothingness to be the case, it must be the case that Nothingness is – it must possess the property of being real. But if it possesses any property, it is not Nothingness. The concept is self‑annihilating.
By the Law of Excluded Middle – itself a direct consequence of A=A (a proposition is either identical to true or identical to false, not both) – either Nothingness is the state of reality or Existence is. Nothingness is impossible. Therefore, Existence is the mandatory default. There was never a void. The “whole” simply is.
To reject Step 2 is to claim Nothingness could be real. But the claim itself asserts the reality of Nothingness, which gives it an identity – contradicting its own definition. The processor crashes.