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No human has ever seen what the world really looks like. We've only seen how bundles of neurons make sense of the electrical impulses from the photons hitting the back of our retina, sending signals down the optic nerve.

If you saw the world the way it looks in totality, when you looked up in the night sky, you wouldn't see blackness. If your eyes were sensitive to infrared light, radio frequencies, microwaves, ultraviolet and the entire electromagnetic spectrum, you'd see a universe glowing brilliantly above you. Yet we see but a tiny sliver of what we call "visible light".

It is strange that our intuition is that the human eye is the gold standard for visual perception of reality, when it sees so little of it.
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Mike Brock 2y ago

If you're so certain you know what is true about the world, and if you're so certain you know exactly what is wrong with the world, and you're so certain you know exactly what to do to fix it, from behind your sensory and informationally impoverished singular viewpoint, then you are out of touch with your own limitations.

When I think I'm starting to believe I know all the answers, I remind myself of this.

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💀 Teknari 2y ago

So true, but then again we do know some stuff really well.

We build airplanes and they fly.

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Mike Brock 2y ago

This isn't a denial of the existence of knowledge.

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Ava appreciate Calm & Wisdom. 2y ago

Quant je vous lis, avec tous les feedbacks que vous recevez en retour, j'ai un sentiment de contacter un grand delta entre ce que vous formulez, si analysé, puis certains feed-back la plupart du part, n'avez-vous pas l'impression (ou cette sentiment) d'être un état de frustration presque plus proche de la mélancolie au regard de tous ceux qui environnent ...Vous devriez poser vos pensées sur un bouquin même si vous êtes dans la technologie. Je revois des classiques dans vos notes postes, tweets qu'importe le nom qu'on leur attribue. 🙏 Rares sont les moments où j,y réponds la lecture et l'analyse me suffisent largement. Merci