Consider an insect. A ladybug, perhaps.That insect also knows nothing of mathematics. It knows nothing of the stars. It knows nothing of chemistry.Even under ideal conditions, a perfectly manufactured environment, you could not teach the ladybug about any of these things. It is beyond the limits of its perception.What is beyond the limits of our perception? Is there even a limit? Do you think there is something that humans could not perceive, even if we were put in ideal conditions?I think there certainly must be. And that what's on the exact boundary is the paranormal. Any more esoteric and will never perceive it at all, any less and it's only a matter of time before we do.
>>42336018Absolutely, and it can drive you mad if you briefly understand.
Many things are beyond understanding. Nonlinear time, endless time, how large the universe appears to be, possible pre-big bang uniformity. But inversely, can we really say we understand the ladybug's perception? Stupidity in other humans can already be confusing. Would an immortal know how it feels to have our lifespan? Many questions.
>>42336018I think the most interesting boundary isn't about quality of the content we perceive but how much we can perceive. As in we are only one thing, one individual. Everything goes through our one self and there's a limit on how much we can think at once. Think of the whole spinning apple thing, the more and more apples you add that have their own independent spin and orientation the harder it is to maintain the thought. But instead imagine not just a 3d object but an entire life. Imagine being like 30 people all the same time all in different places and times.Could you still be this YOU you are now whilst also maintain 30 other lives? Knowing exactly which through is whose and how to respond and function without crossing wires all in flawless real time?To somehow have the limitation of thought magically broken would be maddening and more the likely make our lose our sense of self.
>>42336033for that text pic - there are times when this absolutely DOES happen to humans. keep in mind that thirdies have long lost their connection to higher concepts. nobility, objective truth, higher ideals, things the freshest new godlike people blindly take for granted, things that are applied to "characters of color" in media are written to have... they don't actually have those irl. those traits have long faded away.but sometimes a barely-talking ape gets a glimpse of what firsties can comprehend, and it really fucks them up like you wouldn't believe. their tiny monkey brains, lacking prefrontal cortex, aren't designed to comprehend.
humans suffer an extreme degree of cognitive closure, on;y stupid white people high on scientism believe they can see and know everything possiblemuh SCience
>>42336213thirdies? firsties? do you mean third and first world (poor vs rich countries)? i dont think so, so what do you mean
