Tyler correctly notes that the theory of everything will never address mankind's eternal questions.
Then I followed a link in one of his commenters to an essay by physicist , who that the Theory of Everything must be subject to Godel's Theorem. Very interesting essay, but I cannot cut and paste from it. Read it.
He discusses Stephen Hawkings' epiphany, after many years of championing the quest, that a theory of everything is impossible.
Then I went over to Wikipedia to refresh my vague recollections of , which has nothing in common with Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. That Wikipedia entry was good, but there was some rough sledding in it.
The Liar Paradox is the old Nothing I say to you is true, and the many variations thereof.
Is the Liar Paradox a true paradox, or an artifact of symbolization? I think the latter, but that reveals my bias of expecting consistency from reality.
If you're curious about the approaches to the puzzle, the Wikipedia entry seems to do a good job with it.
Thus passed a very enjoyable Tuesday lunch break for this dilettante. (The Escher image is perfect, Bird Dog - thanks.
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Update: Here's a piece that into the Liar Paradox. Thanks, BL
IOW, nature can be made into words, but words can't be made into nature.
Words only describe it; the little squiggly marks we use for reading writing, and the strange sounds we emit from our mouths, are just symbols of matters that exist in reality.
And as we all know, symbols often clash, like in the big finale of the 1812 Overture, where the symbolists are banging 'em together like mad while the cannons go off.
After I lost my one eyed,three legged,deaf dog, Lucky, I just lost that drive.
But thanks to legal and illegal drugs I'm a new man. It's the spots.
They're much clearer on the walls and the liver spots on me are beginning to take on a tre chic tattoo look. I think one actually looks like Lake Huron, always a top choice of tattoed folk.
This here place is lot's better than the old one .
I gots ta make adjustment dat dis ain't dee unhappy place I done com'n from.
For all the lady folk out there who are conjuring an image ov ole Habu just think of Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , or if ya druther Burl Ives.
Reminds me of my job as insurance adjuster.
While visiting a farmer client whose house had burned some weeks earlier, a three-legged pig limped past.
Making small talk, I enquired as to the animal's peculiar condition.
Client answered that the pig had actually awaked the family the night of the fire, and thus had saved their lives.
So he was injured, I asked, in the fire?
No, answered my client, it's just that, he's our hero, and we hate to eat him all at once.
Good Gravy, I exclaimed, What in the world was that?
Client explained that the family of three all preferred drumsticks, and so he had bred the three-legged chickens.
I was so shocked, all I could think of was to ask him, Well, how do they taste?
Up here, in the Mile-Hi City , we just recovered from a Historic event. May I even say a Weather Event of Biblical Proportions --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44 inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.
FYI: George Bush did not come. FEMA did nothing. No one howled for the government.
No one blamed the government.
No one even uttered an expletive on TV. Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.
Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else. Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.
CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5 snowstorm.
Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.
No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House. No one looted.
Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something. Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.
No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.
Nope, we just melted the snow for water. Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.
The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny. Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snowbound families. Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.
We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns. We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is Work or Die .
We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks.
Even though a Category 5 blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate.
It does seem that way, at least to me.
I hope this gets passed on. Maybe SOME people (Like NO and Wash. DC freeloaders) will get the message.
The world does Not owe you a living. The Government and Tax $ are not your insurance company.
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I have long since past the point where I can engage the man on the street in such conversaton, whose eyes quickly glaze over.
In the blogsphere there is enormous opportunity to engage other bloggers in one-ups-man-ship, but here again to what end.
I know, it must be man's never ending quest for knowledge. It is simple mental masturbation, for when one has chased down all the links on the scavenger hunt for knowlege and truth they are still confronted with more questions and philosophical proofs to be answered that will have as much practical effect on mankind as Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russells, Principia Mathematica in which it took 247 pages to prove that 1+1=2.
But to what end?