Philosophical Questions: Reality
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As more and more is being discovered about quantum physics, we become less and less able to comprehend the nature of reality. Is this something temporary and our minds will adapt and begin to understand this new reality or is it possible that the human mind will soon reach its limits of comprehension? If it’s only temporary, is there is a limit to what the human mind can comprehend? If we are reaching our limits, how do we continue to study our reality?
*laugh* This is not new. People freak out about this at least once a century or so.
We are still able to comprehend the nature of reality, or rather, the one most people inhabit most of the time. As some people climb into other layers, it is much like opening up a new level in a game: it takes a while to learn how it works. Once you have learned it, you start looking for a new level. This is normal.
The human brain has limitations. It is a finite object with a given (if large) amount of storage and processing capacity. The human mind is less limited, but still has to deal with the brain's limits. The human soul is not limited, but well, it's also a great deal bigger than will fit in the brain. So it's kind of like the soul is a mainframe and the brain is a terminal; you're only dealing with a small subset of the total potential of your soul actually in your brain. (Most people download what they expect to need in a current life at the beginning, and cannot maintain a two-way link the whole time. Those of us with farmemory can learn to maintain that and can send a request at any time, "Oh hey, I need to knap flint, download the Knapping module," for skills we haven't permed. Very handy. That said, where you choose to aim your brain is up to you. Study quantum physics if you want to, it's fun.
You continue to study reality (or whatever else you like) by asking the next questions. There are always more questions. You are never going to run out, because each answer usually spawns several new questions. Curiosity is fractal like that.
As more and more is being discovered about quantum physics, we become less and less able to comprehend the nature of reality. Is this something temporary and our minds will adapt and begin to understand this new reality or is it possible that the human mind will soon reach its limits of comprehension? If it’s only temporary, is there is a limit to what the human mind can comprehend? If we are reaching our limits, how do we continue to study our reality?
*laugh* This is not new. People freak out about this at least once a century or so.
We are still able to comprehend the nature of reality, or rather, the one most people inhabit most of the time. As some people climb into other layers, it is much like opening up a new level in a game: it takes a while to learn how it works. Once you have learned it, you start looking for a new level. This is normal.
The human brain has limitations. It is a finite object with a given (if large) amount of storage and processing capacity. The human mind is less limited, but still has to deal with the brain's limits. The human soul is not limited, but well, it's also a great deal bigger than will fit in the brain. So it's kind of like the soul is a mainframe and the brain is a terminal; you're only dealing with a small subset of the total potential of your soul actually in your brain. (Most people download what they expect to need in a current life at the beginning, and cannot maintain a two-way link the whole time. Those of us with farmemory can learn to maintain that and can send a request at any time, "Oh hey, I need to knap flint, download the Knapping module," for skills we haven't permed. Very handy. That said, where you choose to aim your brain is up to you. Study quantum physics if you want to, it's fun.
You continue to study reality (or whatever else you like) by asking the next questions. There are always more questions. You are never going to run out, because each answer usually spawns several new questions. Curiosity is fractal like that.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2024-01-14 10:24 am (UTC)Now bend it so the two ends face each other like a torc.
The gap between the two ends is quantum physics.
This is excellent.
I’ve had enough experiences to wonder at the nature of reality and where it all goes wobbly 😂 Most of them are only minor but enough to make me think. And things that I broadly lump in, such a the paranormal and being Pixie Led, or if not lead then definitely being tampered with so that you cannot find places that are definitely there.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2024-01-14 10:29 am (UTC)Thank you!
>> I’ve had enough experiences to wonder at the nature of reality and where it all goes wobbly 😂 Most of them are only minor but enough to make me think. <<
One that most people have experienced is how time is not linear and is elastic. But they pretend it is linear and constant.
>> And things that I broadly lump in, such a the paranormal and being Pixie Led, or if not lead then definitely being tampered with so that you cannot find places that are definitely there.<<
LOL yes, that happened in our ritual meadow once. Someone stepped on a Stray Sod -- we heard the squeal! -- and suddenly she couldn't see the gate that was right in front of her and firelit. After a few minutes of us giggling as she wandered in circles, I hollered for her to turn her jacket inside out. Hey, presto! There was the gate.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2024-01-14 11:05 am (UTC)Oh wow! Yes, Stray Sod, I couldn’t think of the term. Was she annoyed? Did she laugh?
Ours wasn’t that dramatic. We were holidaying in a part of Wales I’d never been (My maternal family are Welsh) called Nevern, which is known for it’s Bleeding Yew in the churchyard, also right next to the Prescelli hills and Carn Ingli which means Mount of Angels and is supposed to be a sacred place. (There is a view that shows the mountain in the shape of a sleeping goddess).
The whole area was very ‘liminal’-feeling.
We’d arrived at the cottage, unpacked and decided to drive into the little town of Newport (not the city, this one is on the coast) to buy something. Drove in, drove back, and could not find the turning to Nevern. It’s not even that far. It’s a few miles. Up and down we drove, further and further, right back into Newport, then the other way, miles beyond where the turning should be. My mother was driving and I had a map (she didn’t have Sat Nav). My partner and a friend were back at the cottage so I tried to call them and that road has no mobile signal except in spots. I was saying, the turning’s right here! It wasn’t.
We started getting hysterical giggles and I said we’ll be driving up and down this damn road forever and people will be sighting us in years to come. We’re trapped! Then I said, please, please let us find the cottage before we pass out from hunger. And the next moment we found the turning which is not that hard to find and signposted, it’s not semi-hidden or anything.
A few days later, we decided to look at Pentre Ifan Cromlech, which wasn’t that far away. We’d passed the sign for it once when we drove down into the lovely little Gwaun Valley. We drove back to see it, a mist came down over the hills. There’s a little lay-by and you can also see Pentre Ifan from the road as we had previously. Could we find it? No, and yet it’s not hard, it’s not that remote (though it feels it). I am a pretty good map-reader and I was bewildered.
But that area has a very strange feeling, you can get quite dreamy just being there.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2024-01-14 11:48 am (UTC)Less annoyed and more confused.
>>The whole area was very ‘liminal’-feeling.<<
That'll do it. Changing things around is easier when they're not tightly anchored in the first place.
>> Then I said, please, please let us find the cottage before we pass out from hunger. And the next moment we found the turning which is not that hard to find and signposted, it’s not semi-hidden or anything.<<
Very smart. It helps to know ways of dealing with fey challenges.
>>Could we find it? No, and yet it’s not hard, it’s not that remote (though it feels it). I am a pretty good map-reader and I was bewildered.<<
Yeah, some places don't get on with maps.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2024-01-14 01:39 pm (UTC)They don’t, do they? It’s as if the map is concertinaed. And they don’t have to be remote or geography large; they can be very small areas.