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The hidden message in Game of Thrones — part 2: the need for a new mythology
Everything is relative to a reference frame
In the series finale of Game of Thrones Jon Snow faced a choice. A choice between love and duty.
Life is a collection of these choices. With every choice comes consequences. Some choices have greater consequences than others, but they all have consequences.
Consequences can be good or bad, right or wrong, or hard or easy. We can frame it how we want, but they are all relative. Each is relative to our own internal reference frame.
The physicist Richard Feynman did some experiments to understand how humans experience time. He would try to measure one minute by counting and discovered that one minute elapsed by the time he counted to 48. He also discovered that he couldn’t speak while counting, but he could read.
Feynman ran into the mathematician John Tukey (“Too-key”) one day in the lunch room. So he asked Tukey to do the experiment. Tukey calibrated his counting to 52 equals one minute. And, Tukey had no problem speaking while counting but couldn’t read.
