World is logical.
‘World is logical’ is a statement that could mean many things depending on how one see logic and its role in the human society plus the greater world. Although logic is usually associated with reasoning and high intellect thinking or ‘not so common’ common sense I’m here to argue that all things, whether be alive, or no living, conscious or unconscious, smart of stupid always follow a set of fundamental logic that guide their basic state of being and there is no such thing as true illogicality.
Why the world is so logical:
Before discussing anything in regards of logic first we have to define what logic is.
According to google logic is:
“Logic is the science and practice of sound reasoning It is a system of thinking that uses facts, evidence, and rules to connect ideas and draw reasonable conclusions, rather than relying on opinions or emotions.”
which is a sound way to define logic as at the core logic is the act of putting patterns together and formulating a response through this process like a ‘if this, than that’ argument. But I believe there is a level of nuance which is left unnoticed by most here. If logic is based on reasoning or is limited to a system with predetermined axioms and facts to set a foundation for logic it can build closed mindsets and perspectives related to the world around us. If we only regard logic in the sense of reasoning and what makes sense in our own understanding it can blind us to see the logic which we can’t see or comprehend but does exist underneath everything.
I believe that at the core of everything in existence is the law of chaos aka ‘Chaos theory.’ It is a mathematic law which states that everything is random but that randomness follow a set of rules which governs it. World is random, it is a place where endless amount of different entities interact with each other on constant bases which produce infinitely large amount of varied interactions and outcomes of those interactions that could possibly exist. World is chaotic, it is random. But randomness also brings order through some means of consistency in the form of recurring patterns. Patterns which form the basis of logic.
In the world everything may seem random but there is always some fundamental pattern which guides each and every variable of the randomness. If you toss a coin you may think the result would be random as the result is up the chance, but that’s not how it is at its core. If you understand the fundamental law behind what determines the result of a toss and control them: the force exerted on to the coin, the direction of the air’s movement as it interacts with the coin mid air and the exact angle at which the coin was tossed, you can achieve total order. It is possible to achieve hundred percent consistency in a coin toss by controlling all the variables — someone have already done it with a machine build for this exact purpose.
The same applies to all the randomness in the world as well. At the core, the laws that determine the nature of existence, laws of physics, mathematics, quantum science and more are never changing. We just don’t wake up one day to find that gravity have slightly changed is pull or atoms have changed their behavior in how they bond with each other. The same is true for which way the sun rise and set, how air fills up all the available space available to it and how living organism works at their more basic level. At the core everything is a self repeating pattern which gives birth to the variability by the complex interactions of all these different elements. At the core and most basic level world is composed of such pattern which are nothing more than sets of logical behaviors which repeat themselves. Even we humans are only a step in this ladder of stacking reactions of patterns. Life originated as bunch of non living matter floating in the space which came together to build a chain, chain that can replicate itself. That chain gave birth to DNA, cells, organism and everything living that exist today. This was all possible through a single line of logic formed out of the natural interaction of all elements: to reproduce more of itself. After all, that’s what living beings are at the core, combination of non living matter somehow alive and conscious which makes more of itself. Life came this far by making more of itself, repeating, mutating and evolving, all the while becoming more complex with each step.
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This fundamental point is important in our discussion as it showcase the main concept for the core idea of this article. All beings work on fundamentals of logic such as reproduction, self preservation and survival. And the modern world of humans stem from those fundamental logics as well. We have not left them behind and they still guide us to this moment.
Logic in the human world:
We primarily care about logic in sense of how people make their decisions. Because we refer to logic as a means to make good decisions and to predict the quality of decisions made by others. We want to understand how logic works on a societal and individual level. Because in the end that’s what we care about and is useful to us.
When we think that someone in being illogical what we really means is that through the framework of logic we hold and to our best of capability to understand the other person’s perspective we can’t come to an understanding at how their actions and decision can be logical in anyway. This line of thought is illogical because it is out of our understanding of logic. It is common to come to this conclusion as many of time we don’t know the details or the logical framework that the other person is working with. It is a lack in our understanding which leads us to form a opinion which would seem illogical in our views.
It is not ideal to go around the world while thinking we have the perfect understanding of the world to the smallest details. It is better to believe that we just lack the data and variables needed to make sense of what we are seeing rather than labeling something as illogical.
To me, illogicality is just logic beyond our comprehension.
Why we believe in illogicality:
What is said so far is abstract and likely doesn’t make sense on the level of human perception which is grounded in real physical interactions with the world. To us, many things and way of reasoning may feel illogical as we see fit. Certainly a person who can’t put two and two together, not in math but in terms of making sense out of patterns, is devoid of logical reasoning. We can see people doing self destructive things, ignore the most basic steps in doing something or lack the basic understanding of the way things work and we call those people and their actions illogical.
But before looking at the illogicality of the world we need to understand that we see the world with our own unique perspective which runs on a framework of logic we have adapted over the life. For most of us this framework would on the classical understanding of logic, to use reasoning to predict the interaction between all the variables and to come to a sound conclusion. This is a very good way of understanding logic but many of times we might not see all the variables leading to us formulating a illogical conclusion of the topic at hand. It doesn’t mean that the world is illogical if we arrive at a illogical conclusion it simply means we lacked something in our reasoning.
Humans, like all other entities in the world, have emerged from basic logical patterns which led to more complex patterns. But that the core we can track down those patterns which run on. We are living beings that means at the core we want to reproduce more us, to do so we also naturally be good at protecting ourselves from the things around us so we can achieve that task and while doing that we got better and more sophisticated at doing just that. At the core, in terms of intelligence and awareness of that intelligence lies in our brain and brain function on a basic set of core principle which all resolves around survival and reproduction. All that human have build and achieved is for these principles. Reason and intelligence is just another means to achieve these principles. But they are not the core drivers of human spirit, survival and self preservation is. And beyond that we also have to consider that human mind is not a perfect machine which runs solely on the most logical and ideal reasoning. It have flaws which results in it using logic which only makes sense in a closed system of reasoning but fails at addressing the bigger picture.
The point I try to communicate through this post was this: there is always logic behind everything that exist, it may not make sense to us but it exist. Knowing this, keeping it in mind and reminding this to ourselves when we consider something as illogical can help us expand our understanding over the world around us. As long as we consider there is logic beneath it all, we can become aware of the fact that there are layers to everything we don’t quite see or understand rather than just believe it is illogicality which ends to room for deeper awareness. Knowing the fact that there is something we don’t know but it is there itself is a form of knowing.
-Lunarious Evergrand.
