Logic

First Principles

Reality is all that exists.  We are only aware of the observable universe.  Space is infinite. Therefore, science is only aware of an infinitesimal fraction of reality.  Reality cannot be known.  We will always be ignorant.   The truth, the whole truth, so help me God, is impossible to obtain.  God is omniscient, they say.  He knows everything, every thing.  Therefore, God does not exist.  An infinite being, in knowledge, goodness, or presence, is a theoretical impossibility.   Lawyers and judges and juries should not insist on the “whole” truth.  Even a partial understanding of truth would be so vast as to be unworkable in a court of law.  

We are all in our own skull-sized universe.  The multiverse is psychological.  The library is a portal to alternative universes.  The universe between your ears is truly vast.   The number of possible connections between neurons is said to be as large as the number of atoms in the universe.   Different cultures and languages are like drugs, inebriating us, even causing culture shock.  We are strangers to ourselves.  Psychonauts explore their inner dimension.  Food and drugs change us, make us foreign.   We are constantly changing, excreting the old, eating and drinking the new.  What we read, watch, and listen to; how we work and play; and who we interact with and what we think about, change us, day by day.   Each morning is like being born again.  Sometimes who we see in the mirror surprises us.   And universities are itty universes, of course.