A professor carelessly slams the Pencil on a table and turns to the board; he begins to talk and pulverize chalk onto the cold slab of carbon. A bored student watches the Pencil as he makes his rolling pilgrimage to the edge of the table.
“Judging by the force of friction and the velocity at which I commenced rolling, I shall go over the edge.”
The Pencil models his journey again.
“Yes, I will surely go over. Survival is impossible.”
The Pencil continues his motion.
“What is impossibility? It means that the event at hand cannot happen in this reality.
What is reality? Reality is this material world which I can perceive.”
The Pencil spins as his thoughts do.
“Perception is my ability to sense and interpret information.
Information is the collection of the data which I have access to; most of it is true.
A truth is what is consistent with the rules of a system.
How do I define a rule? I define it as an algorithm that links events to consequences.
What is an event? It is an occurrence that transpires through an interval of time.
An occurrence changes its environment.
What is change? Change is the mutilation of the world over time. If I could sense time, nothing would ever change; the table I am rolling on always would be everything it had been and was and would have been.
What am I? I am an entity in this world.
What does “is” mean? It means that the referred noun holds the qualities on the other side of the “is”.
What is “what”? It is a question which interrogates the base nature of the concept at hand.
A question is an inquiry into some property of an object or concept.
Properties of unreal objects never change because unreal objects cannot exist in time.
Time is the only concept I cannot understand.
What is understanding? Understanding is the ability to disassemble and rebuild a concept or object.
Assembly is the arrangement of particles into a desired shape.
Shape is the description of an object in varying dimensions.
A dimension is a container for an object; multiple dimensions can hold the same object.
What is an object? An object is any entity within any world.
Are there worlds other than this one? Yes; the symbols I use to describe my motion do not belong to this world, everything is linked to a world, so the symbols exist in another world; therefore other worlds exist.”
The Pencil never seems to reach the edge of the table, for the speed of his perception is proportional to the time he has left to perceive;
his thoughts continue forever.
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