Its not a fucking riddle, it’s a koan/thought experiment.
It’s questioning what ‘communication’ fundamentally is, and what knowledge fundamentally is.
It’s not even the first thing to do this. Military theory was cracking away at the ‘communication’ thing a century before, and the nature of knowledge has discourse going back thousands of years.
You’re right, I shouldn’t have called it a riddle. Still, being a fucking thought experiment doesn’t preclude having a solution. Theseus’ ship is another famous fucking thought experiment, which has also been solved.
That’s not even remotely the point. Yes there are nany valid solutions. The point isn’t to solve it, but what how you solve it says about and clarifies your ideas.
I suppose if you’re going to be postmodernist about it, but that’s beyond my ability to understand. The only complete solution I know to Theseus’ Ship is “the universe is agnostic as to which ship is the original. Identity of a composite thing is not part of the laws of physics.” Not sure why you put scare quotes around it.
as I said, postmodernist lol. I’m coming from the absolutist angle.
I’ll admit though that it also functions to tell you about how someone thinks about the universe. But this is true of any question which has one right answer.
Its not a fucking riddle, it’s a koan/thought experiment.
It’s questioning what ‘communication’ fundamentally is, and what knowledge fundamentally is.
It’s not even the first thing to do this. Military theory was cracking away at the ‘communication’ thing a century before, and the nature of knowledge has discourse going back thousands of years.
You’re right, I shouldn’t have called it a riddle. Still, being a fucking thought experiment doesn’t preclude having a solution. Theseus’ ship is another famous fucking thought experiment, which has also been solved.
‘A solution’
That’s not even remotely the point. Yes there are nany valid solutions. The point isn’t to solve it, but what how you solve it says about and clarifies your ideas.
I suppose if you’re going to be postmodernist about it, but that’s beyond my ability to understand. The only complete solution I know to Theseus’ Ship is “the universe is agnostic as to which ship is the original. Identity of a composite thing is not part of the laws of physics.” Not sure why you put scare quotes around it.
For different value sets and use cases, dear.
as I said, postmodernist lol. I’m coming from the absolutist angle.
I’ll admit though that it also functions to tell you about how someone thinks about the universe. But this is true of any question which has one right answer.