The Human Bias
It's hard to escape our biases. Often I find that they are the main obstacle preventing people from accepting Relativism. It's been a long time since I let my physical experience impact on what I believe, so I sometimes find it hard understanding how it is that others cannot simply see the obvious. I'm not exempt from bias, I still see it in my choices, but the difference is that I do see it, and I attempt to do something about it.
There is bias in the path to Nihilism that I have mentioned. The patterns that I spoke of, the use of elegance as a measure, even the very formulation of a philosophy all reek of bias. Does this then indicated that Nihilism is invalid? No.
Let me use a simple analogy...
There is a pane of glass that is infinite in size, we throw a rock at that pane of glass and it breaks. Cracks in a pane of glass spread from the point of impact towards its edges. Sometimes cracks fork or merge, but the direction of the cracks - outward from the impact - is constant. It is evident from observing these cracks that the origin of the break is at the point of maximum commonality in the path of the cracks - that is, where the cracks coalesce. If one were to consider that point on the same pane of glass without cracks in, one would see all directions as being uniform.
That pane of glass is the philosophy space; points along cracks are philosophies (beliefs if you will) in their various states of development. Tracing the cracks back from the edges, the points where the cracks coalesce are where axioms are unified. Eventually we reach the origin where all cracks (axioms) are unified. We can identify this as the origin by studying the patterns in the cracks. We can identify recursions (such as unification, bifurcation, crack density, etc) as symmetries and patterns. By using these symmetries and patterns, it becomes unnecessary to trace every crack.
Despite all of this, though, if we look at the unbroken sheet of glass, all that is evident is uniformity. Patterns in the glass are artifacts of its breaking, similarly, patterns in the philosophy space are artifacts of the nothingness' manifestation. It is not only possible to use these patterns to find the origin of the break, but necessary. Likewise, it is necessary to use the patterns in the philosophy space to find the origin: Nihilism.
This is an example of the lock-key pattern. Stated simply: wherever a lock is located, there is inherently a key to that lock located.
There is bias in the path to Nihilism that I have mentioned. The patterns that I spoke of, the use of elegance as a measure, even the very formulation of a philosophy all reek of bias. Does this then indicated that Nihilism is invalid? No.
Let me use a simple analogy...
There is a pane of glass that is infinite in size, we throw a rock at that pane of glass and it breaks. Cracks in a pane of glass spread from the point of impact towards its edges. Sometimes cracks fork or merge, but the direction of the cracks - outward from the impact - is constant. It is evident from observing these cracks that the origin of the break is at the point of maximum commonality in the path of the cracks - that is, where the cracks coalesce. If one were to consider that point on the same pane of glass without cracks in, one would see all directions as being uniform.
That pane of glass is the philosophy space; points along cracks are philosophies (beliefs if you will) in their various states of development. Tracing the cracks back from the edges, the points where the cracks coalesce are where axioms are unified. Eventually we reach the origin where all cracks (axioms) are unified. We can identify this as the origin by studying the patterns in the cracks. We can identify recursions (such as unification, bifurcation, crack density, etc) as symmetries and patterns. By using these symmetries and patterns, it becomes unnecessary to trace every crack.
Despite all of this, though, if we look at the unbroken sheet of glass, all that is evident is uniformity. Patterns in the glass are artifacts of its breaking, similarly, patterns in the philosophy space are artifacts of the nothingness' manifestation. It is not only possible to use these patterns to find the origin of the break, but necessary. Likewise, it is necessary to use the patterns in the philosophy space to find the origin: Nihilism.
This is an example of the lock-key pattern. Stated simply: wherever a lock is located, there is inherently a key to that lock located.
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