everyone plase answer this?

Question

Here is a philosophical question

You are placed in a room filled with chaos, this room has no visible doors or windows and no walls that your eyes can see, however you senses are bombarded with madness and illogical reason.

From somewhere, (it does not matter where) you are given a ball of string that is knotted and tangled beyond infinity and you are told that for every knot and tangle that you unravel you will learn a truth about the universe, and that should you unravel the entire ball of string you will have evolved to such a level as to become a god with infinite power of the world of men.

You have your entire lifetime to complete this task, but you can not lose your temper or scream or yell or curse or pull or tug in anyway.

How long will it take you to fail

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sorry

beforeyou tell me to use the spell check i just seen that i have made a spelling mistake in the title

plase should be please

sorry

Now that there has been some responses I will post what I believe to be the answer to this question

I believe the answer to be

To solve that which is unsolvable, we must first accept that we can not solve it. Once we have accepted this we will realize the truth, that there is no string, the string is only a metaphor of our lives and so by unravelling our selves the string will in turn unravel itself, and as we learn the mysteries of our own life so we shall learn all the mysteries of the universe as the knots in the string, one by on, fall away solved.

Answer 1

Please forgive me, I do NOT mean to sound rude or condescending, (or even lose my temper or scream or yell or curse or pull or tug in anyway) but: Why do you assume there is anything even remotely Meaningful and/or Universally Relevant about the notion of "self" to begin with? ... And what exactly is that aforementioned "self" supposed to learn from an ill-defined, and otherwise impossible-by-design, metaphorical marmalade?

Answer 2

I would pick a random 100 knots, to see what mysteries I could unravel. Then I would get 3 friends to unravel 100 knots each, they would then get three friends each and so on. In the end we can pool our ideas onto a massive data base. Then using that knowledge, construct a machine that can produce a telepathic link between every person on the planet. The information then can be shared around everyone, it is the only way we could get anywhere near comprehending the secrets of the universe.

Answer 3

Assuming that you never yell or scream or curse or lose your temper, you will fail the day you die.
Your lifetime is not enough time to unravel a string tangled beyond infinite. In fact, the lifetime of the universe isn't enough time. You need more than infinite time to unravel it.

Answer 4

OK, First of all I am a genius at unraveling knots, however about the ball of string that is knotted beyond infinity (is it truly infinity or is that a hypathetical). This sounds to me like a question that is a set up for failure b4 you even get started. My question to you is " How long will it take you to fail?

Answer 5

You describe what seems to me to be a very contrived situation and then totally ignore its implications to the second situation you describe and neither of these seems in any way a challenging or interesting problem to which to respond.

So, I won't; except to say that if in the unlikely and totally improbable event any of this happened to me I would tell whoever was describing the task to get stuffed and hang myself with the string. Actually, without realizing it, the whole problem you posit depicts life and the impossible and irrational tests and behaviors of most religions and gods about which I have read.

Answer 6

I am 1) Female 2) Caucasian 3) Not religious 4) Straight 5) Nationality - Was born in the USA. My background includes, Italian, Canadian French. Native American Indian, Polish/Russian, and Scottish

Answer 7

I will not make an attempt to begin with...why try and become God when there is so much to learn from the very chaos around...i d rather try and study the chaos arnd than waste my time on a ball of knots

Answer 8

This is the main reason why we have many lifetimes. We cannot experience all there is to experience using just one body within 90 years.

About learning all there is to learn, truth is, there is nothing more to learn. We already know everything. We just need to experience everything that we know.

Experiencing what we already know affirms that we already know.

Schools and universities are designed to train people how to think.

Answer 9

a human will fail in their first attempt. one must first learn patience in enduring such a task....if god were to endure this task, what qualities would he posses before starting? after learning that, you just might have a chance.

Answer 10

Personally I think it may take me an hour before I succumb to the insanity of the place.