Legend

Myriad Reality

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Who could know? You can’t consider it that bad, truly, as even if the knowledge everything has been relying on since discovery from the start of time gets proven inconsistent, it has proven so close to it that it’s reliable across Existence for eons with only minor hiccups. We’d know the inconsistencies can and do occur, but how much it truly affects is another question. Current knowledge would still be valuable and reliable, if not indisputably so.

@Valiance

But do we have evidence of a valid inconsistency? Of a physical reality that is verifiably both true and false? Such a construct, according to some interpretations, could be harnessed to alter the nature of any object or entity.

Myriad Reality

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Exactly. Throw it all into chaos, let everyone have a good time figuring out the mess.

@Valiance

In a manner of speaking, I fear that would create a knot beyond anyone’s ability to untie.

Myriad Reality

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Sounds like fun to me. A big old smack of the reset button, start over on everything. All knowledge is fair game.

@Valiance

Ah, but suddenly all knowledge would have the potential to exist, and fiction would coexist with fact.

Myriad Reality

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The science of contradiction. Doesn’t sound very sciencey at all.

@Valiance

Precisely! Such an object would be the very antonym of science. And yet, if there exists some physical manifestation of a contradiction, some interpretations assert that it may usher disastrous consequences.

Myriad Reality

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I give you that, certainly. More fascinating if you ever go beyond just conjecture.

@Valiance

Which is why I’m interested in proving one of those three realities. My intuition is that the third category best represents Existence, but I admit that the second would branch into several new fields of research.

Myriad Reality

Myriad Reality

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To an extent, at least. People are surprisingly consistent.

@Valiance

Perhaps on the scale of trends. However, given identical initial conditions, a new response would indicate that either there are additional variables we did not account for, that the world is inherently contradictory, or that there exists a false assumption, and that willed entities cannot adequately be described with our axioms. All scenarios beget fascinating, perhaps even chilling implications.

Myriad Reality

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And we can't have that. The only thing I can consistently say about the world is that it is consistent.
*Grins widely with amusement*

@Valiance

*Nods and smiles knowingly*
And yet, perhaps its residents are not. Which brings us back to empirical tests.

Myriad Reality

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This is all assuming. I enjoy a good thought experiment.

@Valiance

Indeed. Assuming everything is built from consistent axioms, then we must face the reality of determinism. To believe otherwise is to reject that our world is consistent.

Myriad Reality

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Just wonder if destiny does appear to be true to any regard, if it shares that sort of quality. Irreducible.

@Valiance

*Half smiles*
You almost appear to be adopting the physical determinism position.