Mu (zen)?
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Pure awareness, prior to experience or knowledge. This meaning is used especially by the Chan school of Buddhism.
A negative.
Caused to be nonexistent.
Impossible; lacking reason or cause.
Nonexistence; nonbeing; not having; a lack of, without.
The "original nonbeing" from which being is produced in the Tao Te Ching.
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*a sub-genre of SF is uchronic/uchronia, from the collection I read there was "Garibaldi at Gettysburg/Return at Gettysburg", by Pierfrancesco Prosperi (the book it's not translated),
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