The secret (of the) paradox

About UFOs

1. Is this a real UFO, or is it just a cloud which looks like a UFO?
2. But what is a ‘real’ UFO? Have we ever seen a ‘true’ UFO, or all UFOs are just products of our imagination?
3. Even if we suppose that real UFOs (as material technological machines) exist, if one of them visited us, what would we really make out of it?
4. Would we perceive a true extraterrestrial spaceship, or just a UFO (a flying object of unknown composition and origin)?

About the always ambiguous nature of our logic

5. The best explanation of the previous problem is that our own way we perceive and understand things is contradictory.

6. Formally, such a contradiction or paradoxicality was stated by Gödel with his incompleteness theorem(s). Simply put, Gödel said that every logical system is either incomplete or inconsistent: Either there will always be questions that cannot be answered, using a certain set of axioms; or that you cannot prove that a system of axioms is consistent, unless you use a different set of axioms. Those theorems are important because they prove that is impossible to create a set of axioms that explains everything. [1]

7. We accept without questioning the existence of certain things, although we cannot prove that they do exist.

8. Such things include not only UFOs or God, but also the essential aspects of our life- for example can we prove that we exist?

The paradox of secrets

9. The nature of a secret can offer us another example: A secret represents something which is supposed to be unknown. Yet everyone seems to know about it…

10. For example someone says: “I will tell you a secret, but I don’t want you to tell anybody about it…”

11. However at the same moment when the secret is told or even thought about, it seizes to be a secret.

12. Thus a secret is the representation of a thing, which is common to everyone, but which, for some reason, it had better be implied.

The secret of the paradox

13. This is the paradox of a secret: It is a representation of a thing, instead of the thing itself. And we would rather stick to the symbolic representation of that object, instead of the real object.

14. But are there any real things out there after all?  When we eat an apple for example, is there any sense of the ‘apple’ outside our own field of perception?

15. We can say that the apple must exist as a real object ‘out there,’ but the reality of the apple never exceeds our own conviction, while there is no way to prove its objective existence, beyond at least the evidence which we have all agreed to consider undisputed.

16. Thus the secret of the paradox: Our whole life is a paradox by nature, which we keep secret by definition.

[1]: [https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems]

The Secret Paradox: 2008

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