The Heart Of All Things

Nothing can contradict or be beyond necessary truths, and the only truths that are in themselves are logical axioms (such as that something is true, that a thing is what it is, and that something which logically follows from another thing cannot be false), for even other necessary truths of reason hinge on the inherent veracity of axioms.  If axioms were false, they would still be true, for even their falsity would still entail their truth--with one of the aforementioned axioms, if something is not what it is, and is something else, then that would still be what it is.  Many people, as non-rationalists, either completely ignore the true nature of reason, which is the core nature of reality, or mistake reason for an aspect of something else, like mental perception or the physical world--all when they do not even know how to prove that there is a physical world!  Since logical axioms cannot be false, everything else that is or could be true can only exist if it does not contradict the laws of logic.

Not even God himself could be free of these necessary truths, either to escape them or to render them false in even a single instance.  The uncaused cause itself, God, is logically necessary in light of the impossibility of infinite regress (the present would never arrive), self-causation of the universe (it would have to exist before it existed for this, another impossibility), or the universe coming into being without a metaphysical cause (nothing produces nothing; though logical truths still exist in the absence of God and matter, they cannot create anything).  As for the cosmos of matter that it created, something that perhaps contains a multiple universes, nothing of its workings, structure, or general nature can contradict the axioms that cannot be false.  Operating within that universe, there are scientific laws that could change at any time, but they still, as contingent, lesser aspects of reality than logic, shape sensory life in the material world--laws like gravitation or Newton's first law of motion are examples.

People can use this matter and scientific phenomena to create technology for practical conveniences and to express creativity, desires, or appreciation of scientific correlations, though these correlations are not inherently true: they could have differed and they at any moment might change.  Even so, from this technology can come worlds of immaterial cyberspace, immateriality springing from material origins.  Various forms of technology can also be harnessed for storytelling in order to entertain or, more importantly, honor or explore philosophical truths.  No, logical truths could not even be false in fiction since they are intrinsic truths; no imagined narratives and existents in any possible alternate world could be contrary to reason since the falsity of logic would require that reason still be true.  For instance, if it was not true that something which follows from another thing cannot be false, then the falsity of logic would not necessitate in any particular case that reason is erroneous, and thus reason would still be correct.

Though they are subjectively experienced, whereas logical truths are objective in their absolute certainty and intrinsic truth, the consciousness that is required to grasp logic and sensory perceptions of nature and technology alike is itself one of the deepest parts of reality.  Only in forsaking, ignoring, or trivializing the supreme existence and total certainty of the laws of logic does someone stoop to irrationality; delighting in and pursuing self-awareness of one's own mind is an enormous expression of rationalism when done without assumptions, as well as with the logical truths that consciousness depends on in mind.  After all, it would not be possible for consciousness of any kind to exist, as is true of God, time, or the entirety of the universe, if it contradicted necessary truths!  It is not even a betrayal of reason to crave the pleasures of the intellect, introspection, emotions, sociality, and the senses that can be so personally fulfilling and yet that could be morally damning if pursued in certain ways.

Yes, it is also possible for there to be moral obligations that both would imbue reality with objective meaning and have dire ramifications for those who do not care about anything other than self-gratification.  Were they not to exist, logical truths would still be true and deep, the inherently most foundational thing in reality--and the only part of reality that cannot not be as it is.  There is contradiction and thus impossibility in any logical axioms or necessary truth that follows from them being false.  This is not the case with anything else: everything besides logic is either only true by necessity in light of logic, or at least must be logically possible, or could change at any time.  The universe could cease to exist since its continued existence is not logically necessary, as its mere possibility and whether it has previously existed do not mean it will persist.  The uncaused cause, more fundamental than the universe it is directly or indirectly responsible for, could also cease to exist, as unlikely as it is.  If this happened, everything metaphysically dependent on God would also perish, but logical truths would still be true in themselves.  They exist by necessity in the absence of all else.

Some people might avoidably confuse reason for almost anything other than immaterial, necessary, self-verifying truths that dictate the whole of possibility and beyond, but anyone who is willing can discover the truth.  Logic is not the mental, social construct of language used to convey ideas and experiences, nor is it merely a part of perception or the natural world perceived through the senses.  As a set of necessary truths that all else depends on and that are true independent of even God, logic is the only thing that exists intrinsically.  Nothing can be known apart from them, even though things besides logic like conscious thought are also necessary for knowledge, and nothing could be true in the first place apart from logical axioms and what they necessitate.  Reason is the universal, inescapable, inherent heart of all things metaphysically and epistemologically.