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There are things you can not tell, you know.
Here's something for you. My mother, as many of you know, is a biologist. I was raised around fossils and books full of Linnean names and things about the Cambrian. I can identify an Anomalocaris at ten paces. Which I bet most other people here couldn't do.
But I'm useless at, say, music. If my mother was a musician, instead, however, I'm certain I'd be able to tell the difference between notes as I heard them, but not know what a Yohoia looked like.
Anyway, my point. There is a reality out there. But you might not be able to really tell what it is, because of what you've been trained to do and how your brain works. And the human brain, on top of everything else, creates dichotomies.
Up and down, light and dark, whatever. Even if you're thinking in terms of a continuum, it's 'from X to Y'. A dicotomy plus a bit extra, basically.
But what if there's no such thing? What if, in reality, there is no line seperating, say, left and right. This starts to come into play when you think about infinity, for the record, because one of the definitions of infinity basically goes that if you pointed your fingers directly left and right, without any bending, infinity is the one point both of your fingers are pointing at.
And, also, what if this is a lack that is created by, say, upbringing or the way you develop, rather than being inherent? Like knowing animals or music because you were raised around one. It's something that happens.
What you say, even if it's a direct description of what's going on, is not necessarily true, because you can not say things. There are no words to use. You just can not say it.
And I hate that because I think that the description of reality as it exists should not be held back by deficiancies in what I can express.
Here's something for you. My mother, as many of you know, is a biologist. I was raised around fossils and books full of Linnean names and things about the Cambrian. I can identify an Anomalocaris at ten paces. Which I bet most other people here couldn't do.
But I'm useless at, say, music. If my mother was a musician, instead, however, I'm certain I'd be able to tell the difference between notes as I heard them, but not know what a Yohoia looked like.
Anyway, my point. There is a reality out there. But you might not be able to really tell what it is, because of what you've been trained to do and how your brain works. And the human brain, on top of everything else, creates dichotomies.
Up and down, light and dark, whatever. Even if you're thinking in terms of a continuum, it's 'from X to Y'. A dicotomy plus a bit extra, basically.
But what if there's no such thing? What if, in reality, there is no line seperating, say, left and right. This starts to come into play when you think about infinity, for the record, because one of the definitions of infinity basically goes that if you pointed your fingers directly left and right, without any bending, infinity is the one point both of your fingers are pointing at.
And, also, what if this is a lack that is created by, say, upbringing or the way you develop, rather than being inherent? Like knowing animals or music because you were raised around one. It's something that happens.
What you say, even if it's a direct description of what's going on, is not necessarily true, because you can not say things. There are no words to use. You just can not say it.
And I hate that because I think that the description of reality as it exists should not be held back by deficiancies in what I can express.