There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World

by Carlo Rovelli

So is emptiness the only reality? Is this the ultimate reality? No, writes Nāgārjuna, every perspective exists only by depending on another, it is never the “ultimate” reality, and this includes his own perspective: emptiness is also devoid of essence; conventionally so. No metaphysics survives. Emptiness is empty.