Field notes 10.29.2011
10.29.2011
One of the fundamental difficulties that lie in the way of our understanding of the universe is that we humans must have a name for everything. Every object, concept or even a simple fragment of knowlege must be named. Humans have historically operated in a world of discreet macro-physical objects, and we instinctively project this same system onto the world that is inaccessible to our perception. Must the electron be named and pointed out? Even if we force ourselves to accept the uncertainty, we must still revert to the things we have seen in our macro life and imagine the concept of a “cloud”, which is still wrong.
To attain a true “understanding” or “awareness” as it were, we must stop discretizing our experiences into previously defined “buckets”. We need to get used to gray areas. Living with uncertainty and accepting seemingly irreconcilable concepts is our edge over “the machine”. It is our only hope against bigotry, morality, anxiety, fear, tribalism.
