Valiance

Myriad Reality

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

@Legend

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

Myriad Reality

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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.

@Legend

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

Myriad Reality

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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.

@Legend

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

Myriad Reality

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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.

@Legend

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

Myriad Reality

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

@Legend

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

Myriad Reality

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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.

@Legend

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*

Myriad Reality

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

@Legend

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

Myriad Reality

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Axioms, of course. I cannot further reduce a statement I declare to be true.

@Legend

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

Myriad Reality

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If that were the case, I would ask who or what determines whether information is meant to be uncovered. Every truth is reducible to its constituent components, and to deny its own proof, somewhere must exist a contradiction.

@Legend

I agree. You don’t think you can stretch that to a limit though? Things with components consist of things with components, and that’s true up to a certain point until you eventually get to the point where you find the thing that just is what it is, the smallest thing. The universal component. Easiest example is matter itself.

Myriad Reality

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Ah, it could be unprovable. The idea that the solution isn’t “meant” to be found is ironically similar to the concept of destiny itself.

@Legend

That’s exactly what I was getting at.