{"id":452,"date":"2009-05-05T03:31:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T07:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=452"},"modified":"2009-05-05T03:32:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T07:32:41","slug":"logic-is-illogical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Logic is illogical"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been very busy here.\u00a0 In addition to having house guests (who left near the end of last week), someone quit at the place I work (a part-time job, still don’t have a full-time, and not really anxious for one), and I picked up a lot of additional hours that I’m still not quite used to.\u00a0 My hours just about tripled.\u00a0 I don’t mind at all the extra money this will bring in, but I have to get used to the new schedule.\u00a0 This week it’s been a bit exhaustive, but hopefully I’ll get used to it and get into the groove of things.<\/p>\n

I finished reading Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique<\/a>\"\" last week, and posted some quotes on my Book Quotes blog<\/a>.\u00a0 ‘Twas a good book, I recommend it… I’d like to buy it in paperback if\/when it comes out.<\/p>\n

\"\"I’m now reading Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson<\/a>\"\" by Jennifer Michael Hecht.\u00a0 I read somewhere (maybe on the author’s website?) that the author originally wanted to call the book “A History of Atheism” or something.\u00a0 That’s basically what it is, the history of the questioning of religion, or doubting it.\u00a0 That said, it’s not<\/em> a book of “why atheism is correct” or “why religion is correct” … it doesn’t really seem to make any religious judgments itself, it’s more a “history of religious philosophy” book.\u00a0 For someone like me who doesn’t know much about history, or religious history for that matter, it’s very educational.<\/p>\n

So far, I’ve only read the first two chapters (which are the first 85 pages), and there seem to be qutie a few philosophers of old who questioned how we can really know anything or what the point is of questioning things is when answers cannot be obtained.<\/p>\n

But maybe how we humans understand logic in the first place is fundamentally flawed in a way we can do nothing about.<\/p>\n

So often we think in terms of cause and effect, an event and a reason for it, a “why?” for everything.<\/p>\n

For many things, this seems logical.\u00a0 Something happens, we ask “why?”, we come up with a reason, and that’s that.\u00a0 The trouble is, we can always keep asking “why?” again.\u00a0 And again.\u00a0 Ad infinitum.\u00a0 This usually leads us to some point where we can go no further, a point where we have to say “I don’t know” and that’s that.\u00a0 But even if we could come up with answer, what would be the point?\u00a0 We would just ask “why?” again, and it would have to go on forever.\u00a0 Every event would have to have an infinite number of causes, going backwards for eternity.\u00a0 If it goes on forever, then isn’t that the same as there being no answer<\/em> at all?\u00a0 There can be no end point.<\/p>\n

\"\"One could cheat, and go in circles.\u00a0 “Why are you the boss?”\u00a0 “Because I tell people what to do!”\u00a0 “Why?”\u00a0 “Because I’m the boss!”\u00a0 Of course, such circular logic is considered a logical fallacy.\u00a0 But real logic isn’t always much more helpful, even though it seems<\/em> to make more sense to the mind.\u00a0 But if logic isn’t circular, is it linear?\u00a0 A line that goes on forever?\u00a0 That’s just as useless as a circle!\u00a0 In fact, just about every shape logic could be in is useless.\u00a0 (Well, depending on what you’re using it for.)\u00a0 The whole cause and effect, one thing from another, dominoes of logic . . . ultimately I think it’s a flawed way of looking at the universe, of trying to discover truth.\u00a0 But right now I have no earthly (or heavenly or hellish) idea of what it could be replaced with.<\/p>\n

I’m sure these are not new thoughts for the world, but . . . well, there it is.\u00a0 Logic is illogical!\u00a0 Don’t ask me why!\u00a0 Let me know if you have heard of any philosophers who have had similar thoughts, as I should very much like to read about them.\u00a0 There’s gotta be someone out there, some form of thought I haven’t heard of yet…<\/p>\n

\"\"On an unphilosophical note, I had a weird dream a few nights ago.\u00a0 Near the end of it, a bunch of people gave me a bunch of presents, and it wasn’t my birthday or Christmas or anything.\u00a0 Being quite astounded at my good fortune, I thought “this must be a dream!\u00a0 I’m going to wake myself up!” and with some strange mysterious semi-lucid mental process, I awoke myself.\u00a0 It was like my uncontrollable subconscious willingly giving control back to the my real conscious self.\u00a0 It was a really strange strange experience.<\/p>\n

I call the blog “Blather” so I can blather ya know!<\/p>\n

That’s all for now.\u00a0 Oh, in case you missed it, I posted a YouTube video a few days ago right here<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s a piece I’m hoping will be on my first album, which I’m hoping will be finished this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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