RE: On Logic and Alternate Universes
November 6, 2016 at 2:18 am
(This post was last modified: November 6, 2016 at 2:20 am by FallentoReason.)
Rhythm Wrote:-If- there were another universe, with another set of rules, that would be interesting. What would those rules look like? What would their relationship to each other and to whatever passes for truth in that universe be? How might it be, in that universe, that 2 and 2 yielded 5? Maybe...in that universe, when you combined 2 of something with 2 of something, an extra something popped into existence. If that were the case, then their math would likely reflect that. Afer all, this ath, these logical rules, they're all, ultimately, based in observations of our universe.
Actually, continuing from this, wouldn't it be very convenient - almost useful to the point of explaining why the word exists - to call this universe 'logical'? Because if it were, then it would definitely be interesting to think about. What's the point I'm making? That perhaps to be illogical is to be inconsistent. If somehow their set of axioms never gave the same answer to 2 + 2, then it would be completely illogical, because to them ponies are mushroom explodes, but tomorrow ponies are grey babbles. Nothing ever follows, because nothing really follows a set of axioms. And this kind of universe isn't interesting because we could never grasp anything about it, since nothing will follow from anything we can say about it.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle