[extropy-chat] A vignette on incongruent points of view

[Lee Corbin]

Andrew writes

> One may ask, How can a being understand a new experience
> while retaining the old experience?
> 
> A being may think:
> I live in the present state because I am derived from the past.

Yes, that seems okay.

> While after some time this being decides:
> This conscious instance is momentary, reality is formed from a stream of 
> chaos, jumping from random state to random state.

That too.

> Both are rational thoughts, but they contradict each other.

How so?

Perhaps you resolve it---or see how they don't conflict---in what followed.

Lee

> Can we not understand both at the same time?
> One may understand both, but can only enact one's actions based on one 
> belief.
> There are so many ambiguities in reality, that some ideas are never going to 
> be held by consensus.
> The best we can hope to achieve is to context switch at the right time, 
> afterall no one wants to be in a stagnant state for too long.