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Date: 19 May 2025 17:54:26 GMT
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On Mon, 19 May 2025 16:59:06 -0000 (UTC), Marion wrote:

> On Mon, 19 May 2025 10:07:19 +0000, Farley Flud wrote :
> 
> 
>>> Perhaps the only thing we can truly know is that we know nothing...
>>> or is that just another thing we think we know?
>>> 
>>> 
>> Quantum mechanics gave humans the first inkling that the human
>> brain/mind cannot comprehend ultimate reality.
>> 
>> Some still attempt to rationalize quantum theory but the wise folks
>> don't bother and just use it as a (supremely accurate) calculation
>> tool.
> 
> Ah, a fellow traveler down the rabbit hole of quantum weirdness who
> realizes the limits of a monkey brain - which is - after all - us.

The problem is as you try to explain the limits you wind up with Zen. 
Nietzsche tried to make the leap when he described our world as an 
artistic rendering of reality. Korzybski took a pass at it with 'the map 
is not the territory'.