Venting Without any innate knowledge about the environment we are doomed to learn what little we can about it

[Darkover]

without any innate knowledge about the environment we are doomed to learn what little we can about it

we start from nothing and have to piece together whatever scraps of understanding we can manage. And even then, our perception is limited, biased, and incomplete. We're thrown into existence without instructions, forced to navigate a world that doesn't care whether we understand it or not. No matter how much we learn, there's always an infinite amount beyond our reach. It's like trying to read a book with most of the pages missing.

It's like trying to read a book with most of the pages missing because we start without context. Just as opening a book in the middle leaves you confused about what came before, we're born into existence with no innate understanding of where we are, why we exist, or what anything means. We have to piece together meaning from the fragments available to us.

Our perception is limited. The "pages" we do have access to are incomplete or distorted. Our senses only capture a tiny fraction of reality. We can't see most of the electromagnetic spectrum, hear most frequencies, or directly perceive fundamental forces like gravity. Even our cognitive abilities are constrained, meaning we can only grasp a limited portion of the book's meaning.

Biases and errors skew our understanding. If you only had random, scattered pages from a book, you might misinterpret the story. Similarly, our knowledge is shaped by evolutionary survival needs, personal experiences, and cultural influences, all of which introduce bias. What we think we know might not be the actual truth.

There's no way to get the missing pages. The universe doesn't hand us a guidebook, and many of its truths might be fundamentally beyond human comprehension. Just as a book with missing pages can leave crucial plot points unsolvable, there are aspects of reality—like what consciousness is or what happens after death—that might always remain unknowable.

The book is still being written. Even if we manage to read some pages, new information constantly reshapes our understanding. Scientific discoveries change our view of reality, but each answer raises more questions. We'll never reach the "end" where everything makes sense, because the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

In the end, we're left trying to piece together a coherent story from the few pages we can find, knowing we'll never see the full book.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I suppose I'd hope that parents were around to teach their children something. Then school, college, peers, books, the internet. Of course- we're only learning their rules which we're then expected to obey. Still- most humans I imagine are trained on how to go to the toilet, how to feed themselves, how to speak, how to write and use tools. We're taught one hell of a lot.... Those that struggle are even given extra support- so long as they are identified.

Can you imagine that in the wild? That antelope looks like it's limping or, it's vision is impaired- quick- do something to help it before it gets eaten! Nah- it would just be left to be eaten most likely.

Imagine what it's like for an octopus! They're mother stops eating shortly before they hatch so- she's dead. Dad has already sodded off some place. They truly are alone with a soft body and plenty of creatures around that want to eat them! Pretty incredible then, that they're as intelligent as they are. Probably because they have to be. They simply have to observe one another to learn how to survive entirely alone. We get really pampered compared to them! Funny really that nature must have evolved in their case to find that the best method for them to survive. Imagine how powerful they would be if they had our advantages? I'd love to see octopus take over the earth! Lol.