This is why I have such a difficult time keeping up with the science modality of understanding reality. It rejects personal experience entirely and clutters the mind with a neverending and additive complex structure of language. Linguistic concepts inside the human mind can severely affect our perception of reality (and indeed thinking that there is one static "reality" that science can ultimately win-out and determine with the 5 senses we have available to us + the machines we have developed is rather unrealistic.)
I believe reality is best apprehended being very mindful of all the body's senses with the thoughts of the brain at any given moment in time, with the thoughts of the brain subtracted from the equation -- a feat that is possible through a number of different methods.
It's all very weird and bizarre, but I get frustrated at how everything below a quark keeps getting smaller and it's no longer just our universe but possible an infinite number of them....it's vastly open in both directions. Fun to explore, immerse oneself in, wonder, and be amazed. Very little answers. After studying all this shit I just looked at all the time of my life I was wasting studying science and realized I had no actual goal.
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Originally Posted by Terence McKenna
Ideology is not our friend. It is not a matter of choosing from a smorgasbord of ideologies and rejecting the flawed, the self-contradictory, and the over-simple, in favour of the unflawed, the complex enough. Where is it writ in adamantine that semi-carnivorous monkeys can or should be capable of understanding reality? That seems to me one of the first illusions – and one of the more prideful illusions – of human culture: that a final understanding is possible in the first place. Better, I think, to try and frame questions which can do it – questions which can do it… and leave off searching for answers, because answers are like operating systems: they’re being upgraded faster than you can keep up with it.
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