Explanations are paintings or drawings. If in the future we somehow lived inside a computer simulation where objects popped into existence from nowhere and then dissappeared or where we could walk on water if we said a magic formula and any other extravagant miraculous phenomena existed, then we would create a science and a description and explanations of cause and effect based on this.
So the science or explanations (the causes and effects, the organizing principles etc.) would be a function of the universe we were observing. Change the rules of the universe and the science will change. Extrapolate this to the oddest and most creative combinations of phenomena we could design in the simulator and you would have a Science that would become an Art, a design, an invention, arbitrary with no intrinsic truth other than we are locked inside that particular universe through the simulation.
Now imagine that we are really living inside a simulator where a god or an alien race is designing the reality we observe and hence our Science. In this case isn’t science just a painting, an art form ? What difference than does it make if we are inside a simulator or if this is the bare reality, isn’t it just a quirk combination of elements, cause and effects, just like any quirk Painting (like the more abstract paintings) ? Reality/physics/universe could be (in a simulator) or could have been (in other possible universes) anything imaginable, hence even science is at the most fundamental level truly Arbitrary. In this sense, seen from a far enough angle everything is just an Art form, Art is Science.
To truly get to something different or new we would have to literally get out of the box; modify our neural circuits, mental neural networks, their connections to emotions, new complex and maybe extremely amplified sense organs, intense pleasure (and many other completely new-odd-weird sensations-feelings) and sentiments and any other infinite combination of modified - designed brains. When this happens all our present day science will appear insignificant, we will be in the TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY.
Contradictions are bounded and constrained by the laws of physics. We can always force and assign 3=4, A is also not A, and any wild ideas as much as possible and assign them as true. We can everything. The problems emerge only when applied to reality-physics. Then again if we can paint any picture and draw any sequence of symbols and assign any or all meanings, then physics allows us any and all contradictions on a Metaphysical-Artistic level. So are metaphysical contradictions just “fake” contradictions or are they real even though the physics generating them cannot be contradictory ? Or is the deepest fundament of reality-physics PURE CONTRADICTIONS ?
Another interesting point is miracles. What exactly are miracles ? If a person walked on water or if something appeared out of thin air from nowhere, why would the logical explanation be religious ? There could be any kind of explanation including all kinds of religious and metaphysical explanations. It could be an alien using his power, another TAO god using his power, a computer simulation, an energy from a parallel universe etc.
So miracles themselves don’t really imply anything except that they are no longer within our knowledge of physics. And then why would a god want to use miracles to convince us ? because he knows how hard it would to believe in fairy tales, so what does he do, a guessing game with people, or does he like to compare miracles to logical explanations.
Even more so that miracles may have no explanation and be SIMPLE ASSIGNMENTS. I say a secret formula and a car appears. I can walk on water if I read one particular bible verse, etc.
Anything can be assigned-connected-simply drawn, just like a drawing or painting to anything else and this can become the explanation or the miracle. Any association between any items can be assigned as true and therefore invented as an explanation, since in reality all explanations are assignments, drawings. You need gas to drive a car, because there is a very long (not infinite though) series of causes and effects that explain why, but at the bottom of it all they are just assignments, quirk drawings, arbitrary connections between items that follow a series of rules (laws of physics).
Why does jesus say my kingdom is not of this world ? Does he mean to say that it is of that world where all conceivable assignments can be applied to any items, all possibilities imaginable ? We see only that small interface with this other world that follows logic, yet logic itself is necessary to distinguish anything.
IS EVERYTHING LOGIC OR ARE THERE SOME THINGS SACRED ?