Q1: How can we beings from this circular world, in circular orbit, in a spiral galaxy comprehend linear logic?

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Q2: Would our logic be more linear if the world was flat?

Q3: Do the circumstances of our existance make us loopy?

Answer 1

Stay away from the magic mushrooms.

Q1 Aristotle would tell you that all true logic is geometric in nature so linear logic in a spiral galaxy is a lot like plane trigonometry and projectile theory when you give it a thought.
Q2 It would be more segmented if the world was flat.
Q3 No, that again is the nagic mushrooms. There are no circumstances to our existenc only theories to explain what we do not understand.

Answer 2

I'm suprised that no one pointed out that the earth is not circular; it's spherical! "Circular" implies only a two-dimensional shape. And our orbit isn't circular either, it's elliptical. Also, the shape of our surroundings has nothing to do with the way our mind processes information. We think in linear terms because that is a sequential process, i.e. one thing follows another. For exaample, "I know x is true so if why is like x than y is true as well." Our minds like to progress from one stage, or level to another.
This is why so many of us have trouble with Einsein's idea of the space-time continuum. He was stating how time is not linear, but actually part of a fabric of space. This is an extremely difficult concept for us to grasp, because our entire lives, we have known time to be linear: "yesterday preceded today and tomorrow follows today, etc."
As far as our circumstances making us loopy: nice play on words! Circle=loop I guess you meant. But seriously, thinking about concepts like space/time and worm holes through which one could time travel and all the quantum physics stuff CAN make you loopy! I think that is why so many people. like religious fanatics for example, deny the whole thing and say God made everything and the Earth is only 6000 years old, instead of 4.6 billion, which is STILL only a drop in the bucket for the age of the Universe.

Answer 3

you can't be serious... just because the earth and the orbits and SOME galaxies are ELLIPITICAL (not perfect circles) does not lead to the conclusion that we can only comprehend things that are circular in nature? These things are circular bec ause gravity pulls upon every point sourrounding with an equal force, the objects resemble ellipses because of their movement, which causes their middles to bulge out as they revolve.

We human beings walk upright, but that doesn't mean that we are incapable of understanding the idea that other creatures walk on all fours. Just because some arbitrary aspect of our lives, of our existence is as something, that by no way implies that we are incapable of comprehending elements that do not resemble the initial element. I get the distinct feeling that you are stoned, in which case i am incredibly jealous, because I truly wish i had a big fat blunt to puff on as well.

Answer 4

Here's something to tickle your brain. A circle is defined by it's curvature. The bigger the circle, the less the curvature, for example, with the size of the Earth, we look at the horizon, and even though we know the Earth s roughly spherical-it looks flat because of the size of the Earth.

So if the greater the circle, the less the curvature, an infinite circle should have NO curvature, that is an infinite circle is infact a straight line................linear logic.........or loopy.....you decide.

Answer 5

Anything that looks linear in this universe is actually somewhat curved. So is our logic.

The roundish shape of everything is due to gravity and motion.

The curve in our logic is provided by mind and emotion.

Answer 6

there is nothing perfectly circular about our world, our orbit, or our galaxy.

as for the rest of the questions, i'm wondering if its just random text