The Extremis of Rationality

[robvalue]

Absurdity and paradoxes tend to arise from incomplete understandings, and applying simple rules and principles to unknown territory. I feel confident our understanding of time is woefully incomplete, and is already indicated to not be a simple parameter. So all we can do is model how things seem to be; that's all science can ever do.

When philosophy tries to go beyond the limits of science, it's always going to end up strangling itself. So I wouldn't call this kind of extrapolation rational, because it goes beyond what evidence can support. It just shows we are unequipped, perhaps permanently, to totally understand what is going on.