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In order to exist, Reality must be free of Paradox - Ostronomos - Jul 27, 2018
Anything that does not possess logical integrity can be regarded as contradictory and therefore gives rise to a paradox. Anything that deviates from reality is self-contradictory and thus cannot exist. However, anything that is not rife with contradiction is free to exist. This includes universal cognition. If it is possible for such a universal mind to pop into our universe at specific points then it would if no obstacles are preventing it from doing so. Reality has a benevolent self-designing tendency and as we inhabit this condition and think ourselves as separate bodies with separate objectives, we assume an external reality to the mind when in fact the mind participates in the creation of reality through perception or observation (as defined in Quantum Mechanics), and thus the transition between mind and reality is far smoother than normally apparent. This would thus imply that we live in what can be regarded as a gigantic Quantum mind that processes information and adjusts on the fly to changing conditions. In order for life to evolve it must have a logical purpose in the universe. Reality is not absolute and thus the laws of nature can change and adjust in a process called telic recursion. As reality evolves through time, the mind of God evolves and sometime devolves internally (since there is literally nothing outside reality, nothing is defined as infinite freedom from physical informational onstraint). As reality exists by negation of its opposite.
The dual merging of opposites into one makes reality a mental and physical Cartesian unity. With God being both physical and mental. Whereby the language of mathematics is a powerfully explanatory language that is shared among all minds. The syntactic meta-structure of reality in combination with content (as opposed to non-content), makes reality a dual self-contained and self-referential system that is closed and thus has no outside to it. When an observation is made, the self-creative Being known as the Global Operator Definor, or G.O.D., processes the information of the observation and self-creatively wills all of the necessary responses to that observation, through various mediums of information sources.
RE: In order to exist, Reality must be free of Paradox - stryder - Jul 28, 2018
Reality requires paradoxes because without paradoxes it wouldn't be observed to exist. A rock comes into existence from a emergence of energies that maintain a "stable" existence. It doesn't think, it doesn't make decisions, it's existence is to remain being inert. A lifeform on the other hand can make many decisions, some intelligent ones and others that can land in mistakes (which it can potentially learn from). The very nature of live is animate and it has a myriad of potential directions that it can go and can surprise those that assume to know which path it will choose. Life itself is therefore a paradox. (Especially if you consider that to be able to use the past tense "have lived" requires you to "have died".)
While there are many theories being sported about the metaphysics of our universe in requires to whether it's existence fits particular long standing assumptions, you have to consider these are thoughts and opinions sported by lifeforms and the only rocks that care about it are the ones that have been reforged into machines (computers) and used to try and work out what is real. Those machines however are just paradoxes of a paradox (Since that rock can now think even though it's initial existence meant it would never have got to that point on it's own.)
So the universe and reality requires paradoxes, otherwise it would be stagnant.
RE: In order to exist, Reality must be free of Paradox - Ostronomos - Jul 28, 2018
I would have to disagree with what you are saying overall as those do not qualify as paradoxes. Any kind of paradox would inhibit reality from freely existing in time and would thus negate itself.