Resolve a paradox

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From: Draw on your Knowledge of the Red Science


Is, Is-Not – the closer you look at that boundary, the thinner it gets.

Unlocked with Artisan Studies 2


Challenge information

Narrow, Artisan of the Red Science 5 (50% base)

  • 1 and below - almost impossible (10%)
  • 2 - high-risk (20%)
  • 3 - high-risk (30%)
  • 4 - tough (40%)
  • 5 - very chancy (50%)
  • 6 - chancy (60%)
  • 7 - modest (70%)
  • 8 - very modest (80%)
  • 9 - low-risk (90%)
  • 10 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Boundaries

You ponder distance – namely, Zeno's old idea that it is impossible to traverse any […] at all. Is there a scale where space stops being continuous and becomes discrete? Does the universe move by steps – teeth on a ratchet, or squares on a chessboard?

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Rare Success

Pulling the thread

Does love have an integral? Hatred a limit? And if you pinned down those values, would you be yourself when you emerged from such computations?


Failure

That did not help

Two incomprehensible thoughts do not make clarity. They make a deeper, stranger confusion.