Tuesday, 18 December 2007

Theory of everything

http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=14658

The more I think about tis problem the more I realise (like with so many things I have attempted) that I know nothing and can't even get on the ladder of the problem. Its at least supportive to see scientists beings just as naive as I am :-)

So far in the quest for a proof that "a definite fundamental truth is a contradiction" I've got stuck on self-reference which is the most likely place where a fixed truth is likely to defeat itself.

A self-reference does 2 things.
1) its refers to itself
2) and it refers to something which refers to itself.

Now I can't seem to resolve this issue.

"I have 4 words"

meets condition 1 since it refers to the sentence which is doing the referring. But does it meet condition 2? If it doesn't meet condition 2 then condition 1 must also fail, and if it does meet condition 2 then it must meet condition 1 ... but while 2 implies 1, 1 does not imply 2!

and is there the loop problem here... that it needs to refer not to itself, but to the self-reference itself...

4 some reason this is escaping my grey matter... altho it is Xmas and I'm distracted with presents and stuff...

also distracted by a catrastrophy at work... I lost all the company backup data last week. This is the worst thing I've ever done I think, but I've learned a lot. "What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger" has a corollary... if u want to be strong then nothing must kill you ;-) So I had a few sleepless nights and struggled through and hopefully this will be ok in the end.

Strangely I didn't get that awareness of the universe being a vast wheel with our lives and the events of the world just occuring for short periods of its rotation... like I did when my father died. Instead I began to realise the enormilty of the universe "outside" our sphere of influence. That while I am confident in IT events can transpire against me and I took too many risks with the data and the events did transpire in a very unlikely way. Hubris is what it is called and its the lack of humility at the size of the universe and the way that humans are extremely dependent on good conditions for their well being. There is the growing doom I feel for the human race as a whole... I've always known we were heading for destruction, but the frustration I used to feel and the resignation to our fate seems to have got more ingrained. Hubris.

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