#Zeno's Paradox

[mollyjames]

If I had to travel a distance, and knew I first had to travel half that distance, then half the remaining distance, and so on such that I might never reach my destination, I would simply travel to a location in the direction that was twice as far as the first

[geekysteven]

Zeno tries to walk into a bar, and while he keeps getting incrementally closer, finds that entering a bar is impossible.

[sepdet]

So I've been decluttering/cleaning the garage.

This morning, I dreamt that I came across a canister of rice.

For some reason,instead of just throwing it away or putting it in the kitchen, I had to get out a large chessboard and sort the grains of rice into pairs and take photos of myself with them for their (yes, the rice!!!) photo album.

Which is a modern spin on an ancient parable about a sneaky fellow asking to be paid in rice on a chessboard in which the amount of rice doubles each square, but either way, I think my subconscious is making fun of how I tend to Zeno's paradox every task I tackle.

HAHA VERY FUNNY SUBCONSCIOUS YES EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION DO BE LIKE THAT

and then, on top of that, it's taken me two flipping hours to write this because of arthritis/fibromyalgia micro-naps, which seem worse post-covid. To think I used to be a writer!

it's funny, but AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I miss being a functional human being.

I guess I should just thank my min/maxxing lucky stars I'm a (undeserving & privileged, but I don't deserve to have been born with arthritis either) trust fund baby with inherited UBI, because otherwise I'd be screwed.

[jeffmumm]

A high-quality print is now available of this comic!

[etakeh]

Is 3:00 in the morning and I'm sitting here thinking about how badly Zeno's paradox has fucked me up.

Nothing is ever actually clean. It's only half as clean as it was before. It can only ever be half as clean as it was before.

No job is ever complete. It's only half as complete as it had been. It's only ever going to be half as done as it had been.

Nothing is ever completely finished. Ever. Because it's ever only going to be half as much as it had been. And then half as much as that. And then half as much as that. And it never gets to absolute zero.

In conclusion: fuck off Zeno I hate you forever.

[chiarrara]

sorry not sorry, I love jjk but the power system doesn't make any sense. it's a lot of hand waving over vague intellectual concepts the author doesn't actually fully understand which makes it sound really smart, complex, and deep. But really it's ricocheting between an ode to classic shounen power systems and a straight up recreation of them with a new coat of paint.

And that's fine! It's cool to get inspiration from philosophy and mathematics and physics, it's fine to use that inspiration without having a deep theoretical understanding of the concept, and jjk is nothing if not an ode to and a new iteration of the essence of the shounen genre.

But it doesn't mean the author's explanations of that power system--in the text itself or in additional materials--make any more coherent sense than the quantum physics in marvel movies. Trying to make sense of this stuff is a futile effort because it's not fully developed to that scale, and I think that leaves a lot of people either filling in the gaps themselves and misremembering that as text, or deciding the author is actually way smarter than them and they would need a lot more information to understand it, which is not true, because it doesn't actually make sense.

Complex ideas can be explained at very accessible levels in very simplistic ways when they are deeply and fully understood. If someone actually knows more than you, they won't make you feel like you can't understand the things they know. If they do, it's because they don't understand it well enough to explain it.

[memoriesofthingspast]

zeno’s paradox - 9 - sorites paradox - eubulides of miletes

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[trashendence]

i have so many questions about buck’s sense of dread. because how on brand for him to have an existential crisis about life and his place in it just to let something as ephemeral as a new fun ability that makes him somehow useful distract him from his steady, constant pain.

[fluffybunny35]

Zeno's Razer

I would like to propose a new logical Razor

If something is only possible after an infinite number of steps is perfomed, then it is impossible. The reverse is also true.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Reblog for a bigger sample size

[franticbindings]

Propositional Logic Achilles/Patroclus Sharing a bed, getting together, mathematics If Patroclus was interested in Achilles then he would have said something. He has not said something. Therefore it follows that he is not interested in Achilles. Yet.

When Achillies accepts the honor of being the keynote speaker at LogiCon, the last thing he expects is to have to share a room while staying at Hilbert's Grand Hotel, a place famous for having infinite rooms. Even more unexpected is that he'll be sharing it with the one who got away. His charm will be pushed to the limit if he's going to cross the finish line with Patroclus before the weekend is over. One thing's for sure - Achillies doesn't do things by halves.

[wouldyourfavepaychildsupport]

Would Xeno's Paradox pay child support?

[limblesstar]

why the fuck was achilles racing a tortoise. why didnt he just run faster, is he stupid?

[crudely-drawn-ben]

Typical! I express a perfectly normal opinion about how if I shoot an arrow at a tortoise it should be able to cross the intervening distance, and suddenly everyone is calling me zenophobic.

[wiredsignal]

finally coming full circle on horny broswergirl posting i see. terrific