Paradoxes are addictive. Primarily because our mind is at unrest when we come across problems that we believe we fully understand but are helpless when we try to find a solution. Are paradoxes completely pointless? Why do they even exist? What is our takeaway from pondering over a paradox? Is there anything more to it than just the fun of having an irresolvable puzzle around? Perhaps there is more. What if it is the scariest thing known to us?
To try to understand why a paradox would even remotely scare us, we may have to understand a little bit about the concept of Absolute Randomness. Does Absolute Randomness exist? or do we just call it random when we fail to procure the necessary data and calculate to ascertain the outcome of a system? Take a simple toss of a coin. Is the outcome totally unpredictable or say if we were somehow able to capture data like shape of the coin, material, density, angular momentum, composition of air, wind direction, speed, ground tension and a few dozen other data with time. We may be able to predict the outcome. Hence it is not absolutely random. So is the lottery draw, the weather, quantum mechanics, behaviour of people, you name it. We simply don't or can't calculate and predict, till date.
Randomness then, prevails purely through ignorance. Since we know that mass and energy cannot be destroyed, if the Universe is only made of mass and energy, playing around "randomly"(or following a set of laws), they are just going on and on switching between one another endlessly. So we people get created and change forms and at some point regain the form and again change and so on, forever. There is nothing we can ever do to change it. There is no individuality. We cannot call our individual self as an individual entity. For I without the universe am meaningless. We are part of a whole. We exist together as a system and transpire. There is no escape. We happen, again and again and again.
In life, we can always find ways to handle our problems by fixing them, running away from it or making it worse. We can quit schools, jobs, family, friends, life anything at anytime we want to. But we cannot escape the biggest paradox we are engulfed in. The paradox of existing and being a part of the universe. If this is true, then swimming till you drown may not sound as depressing as it did before reading this.
However there seems to exist an assurance that could very well change several things we haven't understood and could change the fundamental way of our thinking about everything. But let us hope it is not what people call the 'ultimate paradox' - To want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
Bcozazedzo
