Saturday, September 24, 2016

You Can Disagree With Non-Contradiction, But That Won't Be a Contradiction

The Law of Noncontradiction is a law which can be not believed by a person, but never contradicted. It is probably impossible to actually prove the law, but I think the world is much more fun if you believe the law. It means that humor comes not in coming up with nonsensical contradictions which have no grounding in understanding, but rather in refuting these contradictions. For example, to say, "People who say less is more should not become mathematicians. People who say you get what you give should no be accountants." Less is not more. More is more. Having confidence in this view is very playful.

All the same, it is not necessary to hate anyone for holding illogical views. There is no need to try to convert them. If they are nice, good people, it is really OK for them to hold views you don't believe in. I believe they are imperfect views. They believe they are "perfect imperfections," in the words of John Legend. Actually, I think all imperfections are imperfect, because of noncontradiction.

All nonsense is the same. However, it can be interpreted as sense by a conscious person. Interestingly enough, there is only ever one consciousness at a time by an individual. I first encountered this idea in Bernard Baars' writing. There are many paradoxical ideas in the subconscious, but the conscious mind presents a uniform whole. The nonsense may have functions to be put together by the higher conscious process (which is my idea) but it is still arbitrary. That is the only view I can obtain which rectifies the noncontradictory nature of the finished product of consciousness with the chaos of the unconscious.

This leads to another idea, which is that contradictions are simply  metaphors which do not have to be taken absolutely seriously. They can be used as poetry, or play, but they do not have to be considered actual truth. This is quite possible, and it also allows the person to be less rigid in views about concreteness. Things are not so solid then. Maybe, though I think a typically logical view of contradiction is more realistic.

Still, the first few principles do not have to be a truth claims. They can be sincerity and kindness themselves.

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