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Self-development, science, and other cool stuff!: The limits of our understanding

· 19/12/11 · 22 · Reblog

deanleysen:

If our entire understanding of reality is fundamentally based on the conceptualizing of shared, familiar or empirical experiences, and ideas that stray not too far from them, then trying to understand aspects of reality that are dramatically different from our own easily observable world might be almost entirely impossible in our existing cognitive system for understanding the world.


And the further we venture into these fields, the more our understanding seems to gradually fail.

This…is something that I have thought about in my mind for a while, but never able to put into words. Language has it’s limits. But not many would think that language may possibly be archaic, limited, and flawed in the advent of new scientific discovery about the universe. And if language is archaic and language develops the brain, wires the brain to think in a certain way, then what does that say about our thought processes? Click link at the top! Check out his blog!

  1. tumbletotim said: I completely agree with you on the limits of language, but not on the limits of understanding. Will write a blog once I get back from holidays.
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    This…is something...while, but never able...many would...
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  7. exania said: and here is the first time I see some one else that have grasped at the limit of the human. plz do keep this up sens looking at the reality as the reality might not works sense reality is more then what we can grasp at the moment.
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