Something to blow your mind, This is simple, yet abstract Options

[Raijinili]

Try to wrap your mind around this:
You have a stick and a rock. You hit the rock with the stick, and you hear a sound. You hit it again and again, and you hear a sound every time.

1. You hit it one last time, and you don't hear a sound. You find out that you're deaf for some reason. It doesn't matter what reason, but it's important to note that there is a reason.

(Now this is where it gets tricky.)

2. You hit it one last time, and you don't hear a sound. Yet NOTHING HAS CHANGED to affect whether or not you can hear a sound. There is no cause to this lack of effect.

What do you think about that? If, one day, you find out that there are effects that have no causes?

(Now we go into the philosophy of David Hume.)

Science relies on a single premise: What happens before will happen again. If it doesn't happen again, there is a reason for it not to happen again. If you hit the rock, you will hear a sound unless something changes.

But, according to Hume, you can't prove this basic premise through either reason or evidence (science). I forget why not reason, but to prove it through science is to use science to prove that you can trust science. It's circular reasoning.

[Dr Strum]

Rai is not fourteen.