Abstract

Abstract Pioneers in the respective field of philosophy have made remarkable progress in the world. Thinkers starting with Plato and more contemporary thinkers such as Descartes and many others have tried pushing the limits of what humans can learn about the world around us. In my paper I am trying to establish probability as a recognized law of our physical reality. I also briefly discuss logic, reason and the need for modern philosophy. My hopes are also to show that though there are few certainties such as finite lives, the number of uncertainties are incredibly large. Today, we cannot be sure that the mechanics of consciousness are solely electrical synapses that occur in the brain. Nor can we be sure that our universe was created by an almighty and all powerful and vengeful god. We have a likelihood and mathematical values to assign to events occurring and wave functions being “reduced” or collapsed. These mathematical values are not independent of what is known as “mind”; this is a reference to the mind, in the mind/body problem in philosophy.