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Why is there an exception to every rule?

If I were to design the operating system for planet earth, an operating system to manage all of humanity, logically I’d want everything to work exactly as planned. I’d want consistent relationships between cause and affect.

In fact, I would want every scientific law to be irrefutable, to work perfectly, every time. No exceptions!

And yet it doesn’t!

We live in a world where there is a flaw in every theory, imperfections in every design, and a continual degradation in every object, place, and system over time.

There is an exception to every rule.

Nothing is permanent, nothing is perfect, and nothing is 100% reliable. We all intuitively know this already, and yet we are constantly striving to make things as close to permanent, perfect, and reliable as possible.

But it’s not the fact that it’s unachievable that’s important, it’s why our overarching design for humanity works this way – that’s what I find most intriguing.

For some reason, flawed humans work better with flawed designs and flawed systems. But why?

In 1931, Kurt Gödel published his famous incompleteness theorem. They showed that in any mathematical system, there are certain questions that cannot be answered. As a result, mathematicians have come to grips with their inability to understand the universe.

It’s not that Gödel’s theorems are super difficult, rather, they’re simply unknowable. His two theorems state:

No consistent system of axioms whose theorems can be listed by an effective procedure (such as an algorithm) is capable of proving all truths about the arithmetic of the natural numbers.
If a system is sufficiently complicated, it cannot be both consistent and complete.

Beyond what he had originally proposed, Gödel’s theorems also confirm the hypothesis that there is an exception to every rule, saying it’s impossible to find a complete and consistent set of axioms for all mathematics.

Approaching this topic a bit differently, in 1936 Alfred Tarski proposed his Undefinability Theorem stating that truth is officially undefinable.

As humans, we are officially inconsistent, undefinable, and incomplete. As a result, there are certain things in science we can’t know. They are the exceptions to our rules of understandability.

One reason, is that all of our flaws cause us to need each other. We all have different talents, and we can only accomplish things that are truly significant if we work together.

This need for each other is what creates our economy.

To put this into perspective, if we have a planet with only one person there can be no economy. With two people, there will be a very limited economy as they trade things back and forth between each other.

If we grow the number of people on our imaginary planet to 100 people, will the economy be 50 times greater than a planet of two? Actually it’ll be much greater because there will be far more “human need” and it opens up many more lines of trade.

For this reason, a planet of 9 billion people will have a significantly better economy than a world of 6 billion people. At the same time, the economy should never be the only metric we use to analyze a situation.

While in the past, it is true that we had very few tools for measuring a persons value to society other than power and wealth, today’s technology is giving us many new ways to value our contributions.

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