I've enjoyed listening to the latest two #WithinReason podcasts because they sort of go hand in hand.
Simon Blackburn talks about ethics and how at the absolute core of ethics is basically feelings. Intense and visceral feelings but actually understood just as mundanely as you and I feel feelings. That is the absolute base unit of ethics.
Similar vein, Sabine Hossenfelder talked about super determinism and how there is an already quantumly decided path for us. But they veered off and talked about physicists being bad at philosophy because they made axioms about the quantum field because they can't grapple with the implications that free will doesn't exist.
And I've been obsessing over the implications that there might be a base amount of the universe we can comprehend.
Why do we know what right and wrong is? Because we do. Why does gravity exist? Because it does.
We may not be able to know more on these topics. We may be at the end of what is knowable.
Obviously I've read enough history and studied enough science to know we can surpass such hurdles. But this fear and excitement that maybe we've hit the core concepts of the universe and of our minds is thrilling!
What would the implications be if we found the edge of reality? The end of logic? Is this where gods live? Or the final barrier before their realm? Or can we surpass this too and manipulate it like we can the quantum realm?
By the vastness of the universe, the end of possibilities has made the possibilities endless!
