Hello! I just had a thought about how GLaDOS tries to break Wheatley with a paradox, and how he just goes and "solves" it. Honestly I love this moment because not only is it a great funny moment, but he also proved he was better than GLaDOS: while she risks frying her circuits (and fries those of the Frankenturrets) solving it, Wheatley's just doesn't give a crap and bypasses the problem entirely by giving it an arbitrary solution. He's so clever I love him.
((Hehe yeah. He really didnât bother putting too much thought into trying to solve it. He just gave out an answer without even thinking about the logistics of the question and then changed the subject to talk about his itch, which was a way more important matter to him.
He just really didnât care about trying to solve it. Wheatley lives off of the principle of Occamâs Razor which is that the best solution to a problem is the easiest one that requires the least effort. So he just didnât bother putting in any thought or effort into trying to solve that paradox.
However, I also like to think that Wheatley is immune to paradoxes simply because heâs an older model of personality sphere in that heâs more humanlike in behaviour. Wheatley is very complex in his thinking, much like a human, but If you were to try and tell a paradox to someone who is mainly linear thinking, like a turret for instance, then you would fry their brain because their way of thinking has little to no variables and their minds cannot get distracted or sidetracked by some other random thought.
The fact that Wheatley can get distracted allows him an easy escape from circular thinking and falling victim to paradoxes because he can easily just snap himself out of it by thinking about something else. And in that case, he thought about his itch, which was waaaay more important to him than solving some riddle or whatever.))
