I've come to terms with the fact that it's impossible to know and figure out the true nature of reality.

I've come to terms with the fact that it's impossible to know and figure out the true nature of reality. Does a worm ever know it's a worm? Does a dog ever know it's a dog? Same thing applies to humanity. What makes you think you're somehow above the most basic principles of reality which is that inferior beings will always have a limited knowledge and accessibility to knowledge about what it's all about?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's sort of liberating when you think about it. It humbles us. Forces us to abandon our otherwise meaningless ego. We really think we figured it all out, don't we?

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sometimes the quest for truth is rigged though. Sometimes people think they can declare themselves superior beings and gatekeep the truth from people they consider to be inferior.
    There's a truth to be found in this situation though.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >What makes you think you're somehow above the most basic principles of reality
    I can ask questions.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      While I agree with OP for once, this anon brings up a very valid point

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Like the senses, the brain has developped primarily to survive and reproduce. Meme questions like does God exist, what is consciousness, what happends after we die, is the universe a simulation etc. are obviously learned behaviours for the brain seeking survival, like a character in a video game trying to manipulate symbols, but not knowing what screens, pixels, computers or bytes are. The character has no chance of stepping out of the screen into reality, even if it senses that it's being played by a supernatural force.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Additionally, suppose that Mario escapes his dreadful reality of always being attacked by angry turtles and chasing the princess. Now he needs to do real plumbing of sewers to make a living in our world. What's so great about that? Quasi-religious loosh farm soul trap prison planet believers like to think that it's heaven or something outside this reality.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    intuitive/counter-intuitive
    right/left basically

    don't question things

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I can't so noone can
    tard mentality

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >tard mentality

      or do i stop believing the silly notions such as the idea that I can figure out the nature of everything despite being a product of my environment like any other living thing on earth?

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Does a dog ever know it's a dog?
    Do you think there's dogs that believe they are nuclear scientists, or rocks?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Dogs and other instinct driven creatures simply don't think or give a shit about anything. No dog thinks it's something else because it doesn't think in the first place.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    that's because humans power the dream. all of this is a dream that seems real because of the way our senses are designed. a game character wouldn't notice they're in a game, right? if such fourth wall breaks happen, they were written prior to it. every single thing about your life was meticulously crafted by aliens, and i'm dead serious.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the fact something like math and geometry even exists should be telling. dimensional access is restricted to a tiny part of what there really is. perception bandwidth of the human body is small as frick. only seven colors in the rainbow? when in spirit state you can perceive billions and trillions of colors if you wish to do so.

      Obviously our experience is a severely restricted form of whatever reality is, but let's rule out mundane explanations first before considering aliens. A mundane explanation is this: our experience seems mathematical because our brain constructs our experience mathematically. It has to, because without the illusion of tight order and boundaries is necessary tor survive. This is demonstrated by high dose psychedelics dismantling your boundaries and turning you into a crying drooling idiot thinking he's God while helplessly laying on someone's couch looking over him to make sure he doesn't hurt himself.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    the fact something like math and geometry even exists should be telling. dimensional access is restricted to a tiny part of what there really is. perception bandwidth of the human body is small as frick. only seven colors in the rainbow? when in spirit state you can perceive billions and trillions of colors if you wish to do so.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Language is simply a symbol. Yet. I can easily talk shit into you being angry about me if you understand it.

    I can program your emotion.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They say that only when faced with death does a mortal realize he is in fact mortal.
    So to when faced with death does a worm realize his wormhood.
    It is in this critical moment where it must decide. To remain a worm or evolution.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Some of the differences between us and other animals is that we humans are capable of thinking of ourselves to a deeper level, we are more intelligent (mostly) and we can think of things we know nothing of.

    A worm doesn't think: it's a worm. Maybe it thinks or knows it is a worm, but probably not much else beyond that. A dog probably knows it is a dog and probably thinks about it to a certain degree.

    But humans know they are humans, they think about the fact they are humans and about the fact they know they are humans, and they think of other stuff. We think about the things we don't know of and have been for centuries.

    Knowledge can be divided in things we know (what's the cause of rain? what causes diseases?), things we know we don't know (what's dark matter/dark energy? where does the universe come from?) and things we don't even know we don't know.

    While the "true nature of reality" might be out of our grasp, just the fact we "think" of it, just the fact we are aware of our limited knowledge of things puts us so much above other beings.

    Yes, we humans are limited in so many ways. We need food and water. Our brains are limited in some ways. We basically know nothing about the universe. We'll all one day die. We'll maybe never know the true nature of our reality. But we will always try to find an answer.

    Is it better to fight and lose, or just give up without fighting. Humanity will never be free from the absence of knowledge. But just the fact we know this means that our battle for knowledge, even if a lost cause, is never over.

    Even if we find definitive proof that true knowledge is impossible to obtain, that won't and will never stop us from trying to find a proof that we were wrong, that true knowledge is possible.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Become a silent witness and directly observe truth as a seer, rather than trying to create an interpretive mental model of it.

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