Posted by hhs 19 hours ago
My guess to the Fermi paradox is that there actually are intelligent life across the universe but just like in Star Trek they stay quiet until we reach a certain level of knowledge.
Also, the foundational axioms of logic themselves could be valid only at a scale that is familiar to humans. For example, the strict bounday between true and false might get blurred and things could be true and false at the same time at other scale.
Being true and false at the same time is a contradiction. But yeah, there is such a thing as mathematical intuitionism that rejects the law of excluded middle (which is not "being true and false at the same time"). It's just one philosophical stance among others though.
Similar to how Earth's tectonic plates are floating on liquid magma, while appearing to be fully solid and fixed at the surface.
The axioms of a logic that are consistent will definitely not let a statement be true and false at the same time.