{"id":28733,"date":"2025-09-01T16:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=28733"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:59:23","slug":"what-would-you-consider-the-most-complicated-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/09\/01\/what-would-you-consider-the-most-complicated-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"What would you consider the most complicated paradox?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW090125-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW090125-1.jpg\" alt=\"What would you consider the most complicated paradox?\" class=\"wp-image-28730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW090125-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AW090125-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What would you consider the most complicated paradox?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking about Hume&#8217;s historical fallacy and Stephen Hawking&#8217;s comment that the law of entropy is our experience of time. Over time, everything gradually falls apart&#8211;people age, buildings fail, civilizations collapse, mountains erode. That&#8217;s how we know time is passing. But Hume correctly points out that our observation of what has happened before is not necessarily related to what will happen. It&#8217;s a rough time to be a wall (or a human), but this seems like it leaves room for hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking about Hume&#8217;s historical fallacy and Stephen Hawking&#8217;s comment that the law of entropy is our experience of time. Over time, everything gradually falls apart&#8211;people age, buildings fail, civilizations collapse, mountains erode. That&#8217;s how we know time is passing. But Hume correctly points out that our observation of what has happened before is not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/09\/01\/what-would-you-consider-the-most-complicated-paradox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What would you consider the most complicated paradox?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28748,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28733\/revisions\/28748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}