Valiance

Myriad Reality

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Although, according to determinism, they were always destined to be unnerved by its very concept.

@Legend

A veritable loop of logic.

Myriad Reality

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And still a fear of losing the concept of control.

@Legend

Right. In layman's terms, not good.

Myriad Reality

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Possibility three still provides for some exotic interpretations, sans much of the danger.

@Legend

Even still. There's bliss in confidence in knowledge, and as long as no one proves there's an issue, there's no reason to lose that bliss.

Myriad Reality

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And the most concerning. I see the appeal of the third position, and yet also recognize the satisfaction of a solvable, deterministic reality.

@Legend

I understand the importance of everything being consistent like that, but the show the chaos would put on would really be something else.
*Shrugs*
And honestly, it won't bother me if no one ever bears any fruit on experiments like that.

Myriad Reality

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Certainly. My intuition is that of the three possible realities, this thought experiment is the least likely.

@Legend

Sad, it's the most entertaining.

Myriad Reality

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Perhaps. But our words aren’t exactly formal systems.

@Legend

Not at all, just purely conjecture.

Myriad Reality

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There’s also the question of what a physical contradiction would look like, rather than a purely logical one. It may be incomprehensible.

@Legend

I mean, it wouldn't be able to be described on principle. It'd definitely be incomprehensible.

Myriad Reality

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Some believe so. Catastophrophists claim such a discovery could lead to complete collapse. I consider such an outcome unlikely.

@Legend

Sounds a bit outlandish, but I do get it.

Myriad Reality

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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.

@Legend

You’re implying people believe it could be an infectious phenomenon, essentially?

Myriad Reality

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

@Legend

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.