The Self-Referential Dilemma
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Today we explore a very old question: "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?"
From Shakespeare and Gödel, to Quantum Mechanics and Catch-22, we explore a wide range of different ideas that all seem to relate.
Importantly they seem to all contain an aspect of SELF-REFERENCE. I propose this to be at the heart of the dilemma.
Not sure where to further this line of questioning or how it will be useful... but man do I find it fascinating!
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Glad to stumble across ur content dude. What you said about the question possibly being more important than the answer, resonated strongly.
I'm constantly searching for answers and ultimately when I find them, I don't necessarily feel anything - though there have been times when a really good question has been asked by another, and those instances have felt enlightening.
It's kind of like "hey, that's a damn good question - why am I thinking about this thing, when that other thing is more consequential"...
Anyways, what would you make of a theory that supposed, the strange loops that we experience and conceptualise (be it related to the universe, God, life, infinity, consciousness, paradoxes) - that the nature of existence itself - is one of questioning?
I've thought this through quite thoroughly and so far it's held up to all tests.
Being that I haven't been able to break it, it is now at the root of my worldview.
How it goes: at the root cause of everything is the will to wonder. To express curiosity. To have the representative qualities of the question mark symbol.
All creation for me, is born of "?"
As far as I could tell, it is the end of the "why?" regression.
Because when you ask "why ask why?" the answer is along the lines of "just because", "I want to know" or "why not ask why?". It's innate to us as creatures, and so could be extrapolated to all else I feel.
Even logically, if one questions a question, the proof has been given, by the fact that a new question is presented; and that there was a desire to ask in the first place.
And even where I imagine that there were some state of "nothingness", perhaps that question mark might still show itself, and whence it does, a big bang is triggered. Everything that there is, could be a part in the sequence of an eternal chain of questions.
Could it be that a question (any question, even just the inkling of wanting to ask a question) is the ultimate spark for something rather than nothing?
@@chedalot I wrote this like 4 or 5 years ago. Your comment reminded me of it.
In an unknowable way the Universe was born. It thought, “What am I?” and set out to answer this question.
This proved a difficult task. Too subjective to answer oneself, the Universe conjured forms by injecting light into darkness with the hope of finding an objective perspective to answer it’s question. These streaks of light took on a life on their own, and so the parent watched its children play.
The children played and eventually asked, “What am I?”
“I am the Universe” a form chimed.
“I am not the Universe” asserted another.
A third said, “We are children of the Universe; we are an extension of the Universe; does that make us the Universe or something separate?”
While searching for an answer, the forms made love and made more of themselves and created a lineage of forms that all shared a single original point-all possessed by the question, “What am I?”
The Universe watched this with great satisfaction. Smiling it said, “I’ve found my answer.”
Words…words… This “universe “ you speak of is God. The one and true living God. Not “What am I “ but I Am. He is good and all that is good. Nothing was made that was made but by Him. The One who was, and the One who is, and the One who is to come. Seek refuge in Him. Rest in His perfect peace which knows no understanding. Just as the stars are above so too are his ways above our ways. I pray in Jesus’ name that these words find a foothold in you.
Honestly, I am greatly unsure how this ended up in my algorithm, however, this shit is entertaining asf, keep up the good work!
A circle has no beginning.
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I know this is extremely pedantic, but the egg obviously came first. Before that egg, they were no things that we would nowadays call a chicken, instead the egg was made by whatever it was that preceeded the chicken, and from it came the first entity we could define as such.
Yeah this is the scientific view. I probably should have included it but I was going more philosophical.
Pedantic… look I could go on and on about how the egg coming first doesn’t make any logical sense. You fools! God’s living Word is omnipresent and omnipotent in Jesus’ name. The Bible says,”The fear (reverence) of the Lord-is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding .” Proverbs 9:10 you have to start there…He stands at the door and knocks…….Revelation3:20. Jesus is
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Chicken. On the 5th day God created every winged bird according to their kind. And God blessed them saying be fruitful and multiply. He created all living things to procreate according to its kind. What an amazingly awesome Heavenly Father we have in Jesus’ name.
“Awesome Heavenly Father” is a new one for me 😂 That’s awesome.