Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Time/Using Math To Think

Often times when I'm sitting on the school bus, listening to my iPod, I'm thinking. Wooooww big shock. Anyway, when I'm thinking, I like to work things out with math.
For example, take my hypocrisy saying from the post below. (Hypocrisy is the demon of this world - we all commit it, we all accuse it - and yet, somehow, it still exists.) The point of this saying is that hypocrisy cancels itself out, making it technically non existing. Now let's look at math.
7 X 5 X 3 over 5 X 6 X 7
Anybody who's completed 9th grade math should know that you can cancel out the 5 and the 7 on both sides, simplifying the expression to:
3/6, which is 1/2
If you did the actual equation, you're doing more work than you need to, but get the same result. (7 X 5 X 3 = 105 over 5 X 6 X 7 = 210 = 105/210 = 1/2.)
Now apply this to philosophy. When thinking about hypocrisy, it's like saying hypocrisy over hypocrisy. Hypocrite A is accusing Hypocrite B of being a hypocrite, but in reality Hypocrite A has committed hypocrisy many times before, making Hypocrite A a hypocrite, even though she was already one.
Hypocrisy over hypocrisy
Cancel hypocrisy out on both sides, and you get nothing. Making it logical to say hypocrisy doesn't exist in a situation in which everyone involved has committed hypocrisy before. This may not be true for the whole world, though, making my saying kind of false, but most people have done it for certain.
This is how I use math to think.

New subject.
Does time exist?
No. Nononononono.
Time is like philosophy. They both exist on the same degree, meaning they're both in our heads. (Sure, philosophy uses science, but philosophy alone is all in our heads.) Time is something mankind created. Because in reality, all it is, is the universe.. like, the universe is just..the universe. It exists and has matter in it. But the matter in the universe changes. Things happen to the universe, and we wanted a way to tell when these things happened or when things will happen, like when we're supposed to do something. Time is an aid to human life. Do you think animals care about time? They can't tell time, I mean. They have a sense of seasons and day and night, but that's about it. The most time exists in this universe is the patterns that happen, like rotations of the each in itself and around the sun. Time is simply an element of matter. As "time" goes on, things are simply changing the universe and its matter - patterns do happen. In a science experiment, the universe is the control variable, the matter in it is the responding variable, and the manipulated variable are the patterns. I say this because the patterns that happen aren't eternal, and they do change, even if slowly. If you wanted a math comparison it'd be something like this pattern: 13.0000000000015643245 ; 14.00000000000467988 ; 15.0000000000049865904. It's not a pattern, technically. But rounding up/down, it is. It's like a rough pattern. That's what patterns in the universe are. A rough pattern.
Rough patterns means a rough sense of time. Is time accurate? No. It never completely will be. It's almost accurate though. Verrrryyy close to completely accurate, but it's just not.
So technically, time isn't completely accurate, and if it was, then I'd say it existed. But we can't get that close to the patterns in the universe, so we can't get time completely right.

This is why time exists on the same degree as philosophy. Time is for recording and predicting the changes and patterns in the universe. Philosophy is analyzing how things work, what exists, how to act, etc. Philosophy, along with science of course, basically helps us understand our world better. Time is an aid, and so is philosophy.

Sorry if that was kind of weak. It's almost 4 in the morning. (I'm pulling an all nighter, ok? It's spring break.)

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"Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know." - Bertrand Russell

"Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing." - Ambrose Bierce

"Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey." - Captain Jean-Luc Picard

"Time is neutral and does not change things." - Jesse Jackson


~Profound Thoughts Of A Young Woman~

1 comment:

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