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| Jorge Luis Borges�s story, �The Garden of Forking paths� presents a unique view of the nature of the world. In the story, Dr. Yu Tsun by a simple twist of fate encounters sinologist Stephen Albert. Stephen Albert has dedicated himself to deciphering the writings of Yu Tsun�s ancestor Ts�ui Pen, who disgraced himself by swearing to produce an infinite novel and a tremendous labyrinth, and only producing an incoherent manuscript. Albert has translated this manuscript, and carefully pieced the work back together, and states that the novel itself is the labyrinth. What�s more, Albert states that Ts�ui Pen�s labyrinthine is in fact infinite, because within the novel an infinity of pasts, presents, and futures exist, all simultaneously. This is a proposition of the existence of causality: since it is admitted that at any given single point in time and space, let us say here and now, an infinite amount of events may have lead up to that point; considering one of those possible pasts leading into the present, another infinity of possibilities can then exist. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| There are many Labyrinths in literature: In this one, Theseus shows the Minotaur why you don't mess around with the maidens and youths of Athens. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| If this view of the universe is taken as correct, then what is the significance of it? Does it have implication for our actions? There has been a long standing debate on the topic of freedom versus determinism. If the forking paths concept is taken as true, then it verifies free will. Within the story, at the moment of truth where Dr. Yu Tsun sees Richard Madden approaching to arrest him, and then at last murders Stephen Albert, there were then infinite paths before him which were all equally possible, and also equally true. There were also, at the same time, infinite presents which were taking place.
Also, as the story is told ex post facto with Dr. Yu Tsun dictating the events after the fact, then as the story is told, there must have been an infinite possible presents which all resulted in Dr. Tsun being arrested. And as the letter is dictated, there are then infinite possible futures; Dr. Tsun may escape, he may be granted clemency, he may be executed, to name only three possible outcomes. |
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| Fang, let us say, has a secret. Perhaps he hides it behind a small table. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Papers offered to England the mystery of the learned Sinologist Stephen Albert who was murdered by a stranger, one Doctor Yu Tsun. Dr. Tsun currently awaits sentencing... in the Twilight Zone. |
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