A paradox just reveals a flaw in our understanding, or in the tools we use for reasoning.
So natural paradoxes would be how life creates order when the second law of thermodynamics increases disorder, or how life, recognised as being thermodynamically far from equilibrium can self organise when self organisation works by minimising free energy. Or Maxwell's demon could be considered a paradox. But all the above aren't actually paradoxes because we can now explain why. Life does not violate the second law of thermodynamics because order is created locally while entropy is increased globally. A similar argument can be used for Maxwell's demon (it requires energy to function). And life self organises to be thermodynamically far from equilibrium because it results in more entropy being created over time.
My favourite logical paradox is similar to the Cretian liar paradox. It's the Grelling-Nelson paradox, but this only exists because it's a quirk of language that has been created . I find it useful to refer to when theists start waffling on about logic existing independent of humans.
So natural paradoxes would be how life creates order when the second law of thermodynamics increases disorder, or how life, recognised as being thermodynamically far from equilibrium can self organise when self organisation works by minimising free energy. Or Maxwell's demon could be considered a paradox. But all the above aren't actually paradoxes because we can now explain why. Life does not violate the second law of thermodynamics because order is created locally while entropy is increased globally. A similar argument can be used for Maxwell's demon (it requires energy to function). And life self organises to be thermodynamically far from equilibrium because it results in more entropy being created over time.
My favourite logical paradox is similar to the Cretian liar paradox. It's the Grelling-Nelson paradox, but this only exists because it's a quirk of language that has been created . I find it useful to refer to when theists start waffling on about logic existing independent of humans.
