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Philosophy – a black hole

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I am writing this article in a casual, essayistic way because I have only a little knowledge about all the schools of philosophy humans have developed, so it is impossible for me to put out all the references like a research paper. But instinctively, I have something to say about philosophy, especially something people not often talk about, something dark like a black hole. I hope this article could serve as a starter for those who are interested in intellectual exercise and want to jump into the black hole trying to find something till now no one is able to find out.

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Philosophy, I simply put it this way: up till now, it is just logical speculation. I call it “speculation” because we still don’t have any conclusion on any of those difficult philosophical questions. All the theories out there are flawed one way or another. We don’t have any consensus on any of those topics. I call it “l(fā)ogical” because we have been using reasoning to try to figure out those questions since humanity appeared on this planet.

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The fundamental problem, though, lies inside language. Humans use language to think, to reason, but language itself is flawed. There is a fundamental contradiction between reasoning and language: the language is not completely reasonable, it can only be used for reasoning to a certain degree, and beyond that limit, it is helpless. But philosophical reasoning requires absolute reasonableness, no room for vagueness, equivocality, or logical contradiction.

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This seems obvious, but even Plato, who contemplated on those questions by using Greek language, did not seem to have noticed this problem.

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So now for all future philosophers, the job is not trying to find those answers using language, rather, the job should be to prove, once for all, that all natural languages are flawed, that they cannot be used for philosophical reasoning. We have to find other ways for philosophical reasoning. Just like computing, we cannot use natural languages for programming. Once we get rid of natural languages in philosophical reasoning, the remaining task seems to find some tool like computer programming languages.

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But just wait for a moment. Now we come to the darkest part of the problem: humans use natural language for thinking! Even in computer language, the fundamental element is still natural language. Natural language is inherent in humanity. Can anyone prove that humans could get rid of natural language? Because human thinking is based upon natural language, so human thinking, like language, is flawed, not completely reasonable. In other words, humans are unable to get philosophical reasoning! This is the black hole of philosophy. This is the darkest conclusion I ever made. If Plato had known this, he would not have written so many papers.

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For many people, this is hard to accept. But when you look at a cat, or a dog, we know they are incapable of reasoning, let alone philosophical reasoning. In our eyes, they are just children forever intellectually. We all know this for a fact. But why couldn’t we imagine that in front of God, humans are just like cats and dogs? The only difference is: cats and dogs are 5 years old children forever, and humans are 10 years old children forever. We are only a little better than cats and dogs, but in no way can we up to the task of philosophical reasoning.

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According to the above line of thinking, humans are doomed. No further philosophical endeavor needed. But there is one hope. It is the hope that we are somehow different from cats and dogs, that humans can grow intellectually. We humans, unlike cats and dogs, which stop growing intellectually at 5 years old forever, can somehow continue to grow further intellectually. This human intellectual growing might be limitless, like the universe. This is the only reason for humans to continue philosophical reasoning. Hope itself, is something cats and dogs don’t have, and this may prove that humans are indeed different from cats and dogs.

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As we humans grow to a certain point, we might be able to find something in the black hole of philosophy.

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