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Hilary McGowan's picture

Logic Loop

I responded to this earlier, but my post must not have gone through. (Computers!!!) Anyways, here is my post for last weeks' talk:

In today's discussion, I had a major deja vu. It struck me like the usual bolt of lightening dialogue and filled me with this odd sort of fuzzy feeling. 

The little experience was triggered as we discussed the Universe as a whole. Where it came from, how it developed, and the many many theories existing to explain these phenomenon. While trying to imagine this cone-shaped existense of inconceivable size, the feeling that I had experienced the same thing before then. It didn't help the factor that whenever I think of the universe or pick up my well-loved Stephen Hawking I get a slightly creeped out tingle running down my spine. It amplified this feeling to the point that I was nearly trembling with a mix of a smile and a frown somewhere on my lips. 

Science, the Universe, Philosophy and Life. Where do they all coincide? Or do they even hit each other? Some may qualify that all science is reality, and that reality the only concrete thing in the universe. Another mind triggers Mr. Descartes with the idea that reality is a construct of perception. If we can't even peice together the confines of how we measure the universe and reality, how is it possible for us even to begin understanding the potentially overlapping areas of science and every facet of thought. That puts me in a nice, round circle- a Logic Loop if I may- going around and around and never being able to pick a spot to land. I desperately want to be able to find a niche to sit down and pick a perception and understanding for the universe and all it's intricacies, but I feel like this will never happen. Perhaps I really want to stay in the loop that way I will never be stuck with one single understanding. Will I land when I am supposed to, or will I stay in my Logic Loop forever, doomed to deja vu's and tingling feelings up my spine? 

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