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{{a|work|[[File:Paradox.png|550px|frameless|center]]<small>{{catbox|Paradox|Metaphysics|Cosmology}}</small>}}The universe is not a rational place. | {{a|work|[[File:Paradox.png|550px|frameless|center]]<small>{{catbox|Paradox|Metaphysics|Cosmology}}</small>}}The universe is not a rational place. | ||
If it were, the [[middle management]] layer would have long since solved it, [[Reductionism|reduced]] it to atoms, reconstructed it | If it were, the [[middle management]] layer would have long since solved it, [[Reductionism|reduced]] it to atoms, reconstructed it as a binary model and devised the [[algorithm]] that will compute all [[known known]]s in the single [[Causation|causal chain]] that, it turns out, stretches from now to the finite hereafter. For a consequence of [[reductionism]] being true is that all of Creation has a single fate, and there is but a solitary pathway to it. Therefore, all being well, middle management should, at some point soon, finally do away with we [[Meatsack|cantankerous sacks of mortal flesh]], bequeathing us the unlimited leisure our [[technological unemployment]] always promised so, as mute and powerless passengers we can watch, in ultra-high resolution detail, the exact unfolding of the onrushing apocalypse, into whose loving maw we are already, categorically, ''unavoidably'' hurtling. | ||
Reductionism means ''we are solved'' | Reductionism means ''we are solved'': there are no mysteries, no [[paradox]]es; all unknowns will be known, and [[known unknown]]s, [[unknown unknown]]s or even [[unknown known]]s the empty set. | ||
Some | Some find this exciting. I find it desolate, but only to the very limited extent it is even ''coherent''. | ||
So, it is my unalloyed joy to declare, my friends: [[reductionism]] is nonsense; the Cosmos ''cannot'' be solved; we are stuck with our grim, jury-rigged, provisional existence, rammed full as it is of the persistently irrational artefacts we know as ''everyday life''. Right now, I can’t even figure out what to have for ''lunch'', for God’s sake. Judging by what’s in the fridge, that’s a good thing. | |||
Now, if the price of this metaphysical freedom is having endure stupidities like [[non-fungible token]]s, [[rehypothecation]] and [[performance appraisal]]s, then dammit, I’m buying, since that same ticket also grants us a permanent, non-transferable, irrevocable [[licence]] to redesign our own private [[narrative|narratives]] to take ourselves ''wherever we damn well please''. This is mine; readers. You can take it or leave it. | Now, if the price of this [[metaphysical]] freedom is having endure stupidities like [[non-fungible token]]s, [[rehypothecation]] and [[performance appraisal]]s, then dammit, I’m buying, since that same ticket also grants us a permanent, non-transferable, irrevocable [[licence]] to redesign our own private [[narrative|narratives]] to take ourselves ''wherever we damn well please''. This is mine; readers. You can take it or leave it. | ||
So it is with fondness and gratitude that we catalogue just a few of the potty things with which we must deal on any day — see the | So it is with fondness and gratitude that we catalogue just a few of the potty things with which we must deal on any day — see the “[[paradox]]” box on the right. These things may drive us insane, they may make no sense at all but, since they vouchsafe my individuality and my belief in personal freedom — and since they’re cheaper than a snakeskin jacket — they will do for me. | ||
{{Sa}} | {{Sa}} | ||
*[[Reductionism]] | *[[Reductionism]] | ||
*[[Rumsfeld’s taxonomy]] | *[[Rumsfeld’s taxonomy]] | ||
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