BBella\'s Universe (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Thursday, December 01, 2011, 18:57 (4719 days ago) @ dhw

TONY: There is ALWAYS a pattern. Always. We may not recognize it as such, but it is most certainly there.

DHW

I wrote that once you take into account the unanswerable questions, “there is NO fixable pattern.” Perhaps I should have written “no FIXABLE pattern”. There are lots of patterns, and no-one knows which is the right one. The closer you look at the points to be joined, the more flexible the patterns become.

And keep your hands off my chocolate.

Not sure what you mean by fixable in this context, honestly. I don't honestly think that there is more than one pattern to any given thing. I think we SEE different patterns because we can not separate the subsequent influences from the root.

To give it a rather lame mathematical expression(Xeno could probably do better):

y=X^2+Z^3

X^2 + Z^3 will ALWAYS produce Y.. always. And if you knew Y & Z You could always figure out X precisely. The problem is that Y is what we SEE, and the other side of the equal sign has countless variables. It doesn't change the fact that there is 1 and only 1 correct value for Y given any set of variables. Even when we KNOW some of the variables, we do not know them all. The major downfall of science is that it takes a piece of a system and tries to make rules and laws to govern it without understand the system as a whole. In that respect, it is no different than the medical field. You can diagnose a patient with diabetes. You can even diagnose that they are producing not enough(or too much) insulin. But unless you can diagnose WHY they are not producing the correct amount of insulin, and continuously ask why until you have identified ever variable and gotten to the root of the issue, you will never be able to treat the disease, only the symptoms. Sometimes I wonder if Science is just asking the wrong questions...

(Sorry.. I know I got off track with my musings there... could you pass the chocolate :P)

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.