Anouar Rahmani

The Paradox of the Constant and the Random Rubik's Cube Universe. A philosophical paradox that I wrote and conceptualized two and a half years ago while I was still at Carnegie Mellon University. In this paradox, I questioned randomness in its almost absolute form. I did this by building a new imaginary universe and imagining constancy as a problem. What if we imagined a world where change was the only constant, and constancy itself a variable? In my conception of the Rubik’s Cube World, everything exists through continuous and random transformations, from the smallest particles of matter to consciousness, language, life, death, and political systems. In such a world, nothing possesses a permanent form, and existence itself is an infinite process of rearrangement. Yet this imaginary world poses a fundamental philosophical problem: can absolute randomness exist without a constant to sustain it? Through this thought experiment, I explore the relationship between randomness, consciousness, and the necessity of order. If consciousness develops through the continuous rearrangement of scattered elements, and if their ultimate arrangement marks the end of life, then the emergence of a constant creates a peculiar dilemma. The constant, which should contradict this world's nature, becomes a variable within it. Its existence may provide the common reference necessary to organize consciousness and resolve the infinite possibilities of randomness. However, resolving this disorder may also eliminate the very conditions that make intelligent life possible. The Constant Paradox therefore raises a question about the nature of existence itself: if randomness requires a constant to produce order, can achieving that order end the system that produced it?