Can a universe exist that defies reasoning and logic?

Question

If such a universe exist what would it be like

Answer 1

A universe can exist that defies OUR reasoning and logic, but to anybody in that universe, all would seem reasonable and logical. Our universe, to them, would defy reason and logic.
You could not describe this strange (to us) universe either, because it defies our reasoning and logic. If up is down, and down is left, how do you descibe that? Our universe is curved, how do you expain that to someone from a flat universe? Or for that matter, how do you describe what a flat universe is like when living in this curved universe?

Answer 2

This question is broad enough to permit at least two versions, which are:

1) Can an universe have things in it that defies reason and logic?
Ans: We may already be living in such a universe, since while much of it is understandable through reason and logic, there may be things happening that defies reason and logic, and may continue to defy them. There are certainly a lot of wierd things happening that really don't make any sense at all, even though sometimes we have equations that seem to describe them.

2) Can an universe exist that defies ALL reason and logic? Well, in that case, it would mean that any statement made can't be said to be either true or false, otherwise that would be an example of a logical statement. That means none of the statements such as, "Object A exists", or "Object A does not exist", or (evern more bizzarely!), "Object A neither exists nor does not exist", can even be said to be true OR false! It would really be a strange universe, all right. Can such an universe exist? Hey, read the above, man, we couldn't even say!

Answer 3

Yes and no.

Someone could conceive of a universe that defies reasoning and logic based on current knowledge.

However, once we understand how this other universe is built and works, it would no longer defy reasoning and logic.

The one we live in has, on many occasions, defied reasoning and logic. For example, we thought, for a long time, that if you throw something forward at a speed of x, while you yourself are travelling in the same direction with a speed of y, then someone at rest would measure the speed of the object as x+y.

Someone went and measured the speed of light, first when the source was stopped, then when the source was moving very fast. The speed of light stayed the same. It did not matter if the source was moving forward, backwards, doing summersaults. That defied logic.

Then along came Einstein who explained how it could be true and now, it no longer defies reasoning and logic. I'm not saying that it is a simple explanation, but it is a logical one.

There are still plenty of things in our universe that defy reasoning and logic. As we find explanations for old problems, we build better instruments that "help" us find new problems.

Answer 4

Reasoning and logic are highly abstract human constructs. How could the universe be limited by such an extremely narrow range of capability?

Answer 5

No, a universe really can't exist like that because we build our reasoning and logic on what we see. If we saw a universe that behaved completely opposite to this one, we would build our logic on that one... and just have a logic for this universe and a logic for that one. That's what we currently to with atoms verse the universe, we have normal physics for the universe and our word, and we have quantum physics for the atomic world- which goes against all the rules we have in the normal physical world.

Answer 6

I think that our universe fits that criteria. Humans are a part of this universe, and they often defy reason and logic.

Answer 7

if it did then it would be something completely beyond our comprehension and probably best interpreted as experiencing this universe while utterly insane. Which begs the question - are the mentally ill just accidental tourists?

Answer 8

i have self assurance it might want to considering that reasoning and common sense are in themselves products of human philosophy. considering that human mind's eye is depending in journey in spite of the undeniable fact that, I lack the potential to describe what any such universe may be like.

Answer 9

This one

Answer 10

Reasoning isn't reasonable.
Logic isn't logical.
And they are certainly not absolutes.