2 March 2013

And that's what, I conclude..

Three golems that makes a person indispensable:
  1. Vision/Dream
  2. Strong Character and Strong Body
  3. Choosing either axiomatic life or believing that life is flux or not......  

Sometimes, we need to measure our vessel, so that we can analyse, whether it is half empty or half full. I wrote these lines a long back, and happened upon them, while searching for something entirely else. Now, I understand first two points quite clearly, but third one seems a little bit paradoxical.

By axiomatic, I mean proposing a theory based on set of axioms. This kind of thinking, will give you satisfactory results, as these axioms were implicit and seemed truth when you started to realize stuff. However, when you apply the theory in unconventional way, some of axioms start failing.

Around 1930s, Russell who believed that all mathematics can be binded on set of axioms, and anything that has a mathematical form, can be proved using those axioms. He and A.N Whitehead wrote Principia Mathematica, and showed their technique by proving a lots and lots of theorems from it. 
In their time, there was a group called, Vienna Circle, which had most eminent philosophers and thinkers. To name a few, Rudolf Carnap, Richard Von Misses, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Kurt Godel etc. Now Russell, was a hotshot with his work on foundations of mathematics, and he began giving seminars and trying to convince Vienna Circle of his technique. However, Godel had different notion, and he pushed the axiom usage in unconventional way, and found that there were serious inconsistencies in this system. So he proposed his findings in one of seminar, where Russell was also present. And when he proved his proposition, Russell only said "This is the end"    
Now Now, this was not  all bad, since Russell tried so vibrantly to prove his claim, he brought the attention of sceptics and mathematicians. And now, we know a paradox "Russell Paradox". 

Now my second argument, that life is a flux. A flux is never constant, it keeps changing with time. It is how we understand essential workings of electricity and magnetism, however attaching life to flux means that there is nothing steady, nothing settling about life. You cannot come upon any verified truth, because universe is large and you are only considering interactions of a few in your force equation. So is this truth, is this the way life should be.
Our scientific approach to problems of real world involves a lot of reasonable approximations. So if we think, we are getting close to truth, think  about reasonable again. This word, according to Godel has no credibility. And as a human being, I tried to follow  path of flux, but I always reached to little conclusions of the life, and that makes me axiomatic.

Isn't it a bit paradoxical on my part ??   But on other hand, it has given me something to think about. 

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