Biggest = Smallest
I’ve always liked the idea of objects within objects. If one thing is divisible inifinite times, then the smallest element can be divided into infinite pieces as well. No matter how deep you go into the layers, you will never reach the smallest. Thus you are always at the most outer layer, relative to the inner pieces. It can also be interpreted that you are always at the most inner layer, since no matter how much you progress to the outside, you will never reach it.
Brain Workout
See if you can figure these out :)
Expectations and Discrepancy
If you heard on the weather report saying that it’s going to rain today and you carry a huge, heavy umbrella wherever you go, given that you don’t like rain, would you hope that it will rain? Would you want something bad to happen because you have prepared for it?
Donnie Darko
If you are interested in sci-fi (not the Star Wars kind) movies, you will really like Donnie Darko. I watched it recently and it was definitely a great feature film. It does have a confusing storyline, but it gives a very interesting theory about tangent universes and timelines.
If you don’t want to watch the movie, I still recommend Wikipedia’s entry on Donnie Darko. In the plot synopsis is a pretty detailed description of that theory. (Don’t read it if you plan on watching the movie.)
Purpose — Part 2
Purpose (part 1) preluded some concepts such that purpose is the sum of actions of an individual. With respect to the individual, its purpose is absolutely everything it’s got, which has a lot to do with natural selection believe it or not. While natural selection is a phenomenon (or at least a belief that scientists use to explain evolution of species), I will talk about it as a an objective process here.
Purpose — Part 1
I’m sure many of you have seen and been confused by the plot of The Matrix Reloaded. The movie features a series of events based on beliefs such as the purpose of an individual. It seems kind of dumb to answer all questions with “because it’s my/its purpose.” But logically it makes sense to think about events and static objects in terms of their purposes. Here is part 1 of the philosphical explanations The Matrix didn’t offer.
Got My License
That’s right. Right now it’s just a temporary piece of paper, but in a week the actual card is going to come in the mail.
Wooticles!
The Brain Multitasks
It’s crucial that the human consciousness thinks in a linear fashion so we get the result we want. However, the physical structure — the brain — containing consciousness is actually a multitasker that processes many demands simultaneously.
Free Will
This post seemed inevitable due to recent discussion on predestination and cause and effect. So do human beings have free will? Can we actually decide what it is we want for ourselves, or are we bound by the incomprehensible environment factors that eventually lead us to an inevitable path?
I’d like to start by refreshing your memories of The Matrix (Reloaded & Revolutions). If you recall, one of the central themes of the trilogy was fate and inevitability. One conversation stuck in my mind is with the Oracle (if you don’t know, she is a know-it-all) and Neo (the main character played by the dull and boring actor Keanu Reeves).
Predestination
Is everything in this world predestined? Does it matter what you do, or is everything that was supposed to happen ultimately going to happen no matter what?
As helpless and useless thinking this may be, it makes sense that the world is on a timeline of continuing predestination. Everything in the world will happen only one way, no matter how we try to change it, because what we change is ultimately the future.