Oreo Cookies and Reality
Here’s a yummy experiment.
Start with two Oreo cookies. If you’re more health-conscious, try Newman-O’s or some other variety. Now, carefully unscrew the top wafer from each one, exposing the luscious, white, creamy stuffing.
Good. Observe the stuffing. Now, ask yourself this question:
Is it the same stuffing in each cookie?
From one viewpoint, the stuffing is definitely different on each cookie. The blobs are of slightly different shapes, and besides, the one piece of stuffing is in your right hand, and the other in your left! Obviously separate.
Then again, you can imagine the factory, and the huge vat of snowy stuffing. Blop, blop, blop . . . onto each cookie a little globlet is squeezed. But it’s all part of that same pristine sea of stuffing. In this way, we can see that maybe it really is the same stuff. After all, we could easily remove the stuffing from, say, thirteen million cookies, mush it together, and the original globlets would be indistinguishable, forever lost in the Unity of Oreo stuffing.
For some people, one of these ideas will probably sound more ‘right’ than the other. But the fact is that both are equally correct when we’re faced with the question of whether it’s the same stuffing in each cookie.
Pretty much everything is like this. We can argue for one side or the other, but both and neither are right. In fact, the Truth is something that has little to do with Oreo cookie stuffing.
What’s the Truth? You’ll have to explore the rest of this site to find out, since I now have to go eat some Newman-O’s with milk.
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