It's not that there's nothing, but neither is there something.

It is not even sufficient to say that what lies beyond perception is the 'unknown' since this implies there is something 'there', albeit something we can know nothing about. In the absence of a mind, the function of which is to impose discrete boundaries on a boundless ***, categories such as 'knowability' and 'unknowability' can have no purchase. It's not that there's nothing, but neither is there something.