Monday, November 14, 2005

What are and Say again?

What is reason? It is the essential part of right and wrong, but is that really so? Reason is what as we think through reason itself is what makes us different from every other living species alive. However by thinking or reasoning to this conclusion we are in fact questioning ourselves. Are we the only ones with reason? Prehaps every living thing also thinks it is the only thing that has reason. It is a trick of nature for each species to think it is unique. Every living thing reasons to go or not to go, to eat or not to eat, perhaps we are leading ourselves into a trap by going into this false illusion of reason. Our reason is based on our experiences and encounters with the world, but our experiences and encounters are questioned themselves because when we dream, the same and utter truth points back at us; that what I am experiencing is real. Reality is a concept not a fact. Reality is what we make it to be. So then reason is relative to the each and every different little thing experienced in the depths of reality and interaction with the so called world that we think is real. So if we are questioning if it is in fact real or not, are our questions legimate? The answer is no, questions are what make us real because a question is the curiosity of being alive. The exact emotion or reaction of life is to live through asking questions or trial and error so to say. We are challenged and we react. In the base of reason lies the proof of being alive. Being alive is the proof of being. However if look closer and examine ourselves and everything around us, we see atoms and molecules and nothing else. So if we are all atoms and molecules, then what makes you different from a chair, you are made of the same moleculal make up but in a different arrangement. When thinking of the chair, what exactly are you doing? Thinking itself is an interesting concept. If we are able to think of a chair, anotherwards a bunch of molecules are contemplating another bunch of molecules; sounds a little odd. So what makes these bunch of molecules (you) able to think of a chair and a chair not to think about you. The answer is nothing, we are one big soup interacting with itself. Which leads to a conclusion that each person is connected to the whole. Reason exists because we question, but as we question we begin to backtrack to the actual thing that makes us question, questions about questions. Can you ask a question and question the fact the you are asking a question, only to end up asking more questions; It is an infinite loop of questions that make us question. How is it that a finite mind can think or contemplate about the infinite. It sounds absurd but it is what happens. We are definitely missing something. Perhaps we are different from the rest of the world, perhaps we are not a bunch of molecules arranged to dissect themselves. We are not of this world and that is why it is possible for us to reason. How can we, supposedly just like everything else around us, do something that is not possible for the rest of the molecules that are just like us. If we are the same molecules then we act as they do and they as us in no matter what arrangement they are in.. You cannot question something if you are that something, what would be the point; even if you somehow solve, you are still that something. We live for something but is in fact our reason for being to find something about us that proves that we are not us. That makes for a concept that we are infinite. However, while talking about infinity we do not understand it, we only acknowledge that it is supposed to be there but how do you explain infinity. Simple, one might say, it is something that never ends; but explain to me what that something that never ends is. You cannot, because your first thought is what happens or what is there at its end. You cannot no matter what somebody says, understand infinity. You cannot even prove it mathematically, you can only suggest it. Infinity is reason, you cannot explain it, you just know it is there.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

this is deep and complicated but I like that you still laugh at it with the title. Are you mocking us?

Leo Gershfang said...

yeah, a little bit