8-bit philosophy

[bennyboy]

The principle of sufficient reason could only be satisfied by circularity or a sort of reciprocal cause-effect, a struggle that exists in the force between representation and annihilation, Yin and Yang, God and Satan, Good and Evil, Natural Selection, etc.

Okay, let me speculate some as well.

I'd call Yin and Yang a binary paradox, something like a couple Escherian hands drawing each other. I'd even say that it's possible this binary paradox is the fundamental building block of existence-- it may itself be the mysterious philosophical quantity "X" that solves the issue of paradox (infinite regress or self-causality). I guess that's what you're saying, except that I'd apply the word "paradox" to it.

You could even get silly with cross-talk and say that this binary paradox is itself the dinge-an-sich (since Schopenhauer points out that this must represent a unity), and that will is the expression of the thing-in-itself that manifests an apparent subject-object duality in a desire to resolve itself. So the ascetic subjection of the will would involve the collapse of duality, with a resulting direct experience of the dinge-an-sich. Sounds Hindu or Buddhist, methinks.

As an aside, I'm attracted the physical correlates of Schopenhauer's view on the dinge-an-sich, i.e. that since it's outside time and space, it cannot be differentiated, and must therefore be singular. Makes me think of the Big Bang and black hole singularities. Would this possibly mean that all black holes are really the same one, and that the Big Bang singularity represents a manifestation of will?