In the conundrum of existence we have then made one unreasonable though reasonable mistake. We have wanted the universe, the world, our society and ourselves to be something of an understandable nature; this without realizing that understanding is just one facet of existence, one aspect of something, that depends on so may variables being eliminated that it could only reduce us to the coroner that we have become. Every day now we perform an autopsy, on ourselves, on our environment, and even on epistemology, the circular logic of this embarrassing enterprise is hilariously sombering.
We have washed ashore upon the beaches of our own deserted island. We have surrounded ourselves with the sea of our knowledge, trapped, unable to go anywhere where our sea isn’t, we remain stranded counting straws, measuring, day to day occurrences, which ought not to surprise us but still do. There are storms in other planets. Really! There are clouds in Jupiter’s moons. Wow! Whole galaxies have been observed crashing into one another. Incredible. Incredulously incredible. How could we have suspected so much uniqueness so as to be impressed by repetition? If there are billions of suns, and billions of galaxies what are the chances that there isn’t redundancy in the universe? None, I would venture to guess, I would be more impressed if we discovered something fantastic, discovering that at the center of a spiraling, swirling whirlpool of matter we call a galaxy is a drain, we call a blackhole, is not really much of a discovery. To be impressed by this is instead an absolute failure of the imagination.
But let us leave it at that, we want to be impressed by such things so that we can feel like we have done some spectacular service to humanity, by discovering yet another secret of the universe, by discovering yet another fantastic wonder in the wondrous cosmos. But if you dwell on the matter, discovering that the universe is resonating is not that fantastic, the universe has all this matter, and through some medium all of this matter is robbing up against each other, and it is probably going to create some persistent noise, that is bound to screw up any noise we wish to measure, so that we will have to calculate the intensity of this vibration, for that is really what noise is, simply a vibration, which is actually traduced into sound by the environment and more by the receptor, because if the receptor does not transmit sound then there won’t be any sound, at all, but in order to measure the intensity of anything else we actually have to cancel out the sound that already exist, by subtracting its load factor from any other noise out there, and thus we are able to calculate the true silence of the cosmic universe with a nullifying calculus.
By that very same principle we must ask what would happen if we stopped being so impressed with ourselves? Would we cease to exist? Would we cease to discover? Would the universe get bored with us and nullify our essence? Or would we just get bored? Is it boring not to measure how fantastic we are? Can we use some form of calculus to calculate our impressionistic impressions to zero out, so we could factor a universe where we weren’t impressed?
Imagine a calculation that would not require some unique comparison. Top ten best cities in the world. The top ten cities in the world will fluctuate based on the evolving accuracy of the measurers metric. Which means that at any given point the historical reference of the top ten best cities is invalidated by the most current measure. Leading to suspicious conclusions about the present most precise measure. It may come to such egregious propensity that at some point in the barometric future it would be imaginable that the entire measuring system of the top ten best cities is wholly wrong and invalid and thus bankrupt of measure. What then? Does that invalidate all of the events that transpired because of the measure? No, all those people that wanted to live in the top ten best cities still moved there, all of those top ten best cities still felt better and good about themselves because they were on the top ten best cities list, the measure itself is adopted by the measured. And hence, the newer and better and more pristinely calculated top ten cities become drugged by their predecessors.
This is because of the curvature of space time and the universe and more precisely because of the curvature of how you think, you are always landing yourself, you are always being terrestrial, you are always following the curvature of your “constraining.” The reason why you follow the curvature your constrains is wholly reasonable, it is because you require a reference point, familiarity is important to discovery, and so through the curvature of your vision, you are able to reference back your toes to your mind, and know that the body is whole and from there assume that there is something that isn’t there that is there and that you have to find it. However the reference point is what prevents you from discovering something unique because you can’t go in a straight line when you are looking at your own toes, thus creating a radius, and assuming that everything has to somehow embody the very things that embody your toes. Hard as it might be put, everything in the universe can be surmised from your toes: there is flesh, there is fungi and salt and odors, there are atoms and cells and mass, and water, there are nails that grow, there is toil in ingrown nails, and emotion in their pain, and even blood, there are patterns and bones, and there is movement, and restriction of movement; and all your toes are individuals but they all look like each other; but equally all the things that aren’t like your toes, can not be surmised from your toes. This is precisely why things appear to repeat themselves in the universe when in fact they might not repeat themselves at all.
Autopsy, negates the very understanding we are trying to comprehend. You can’t be an epistemologist and study epistemology at the same time, but you can appear to be that to yourself, and that is precisely what we have accomplished! We have accomplished the study of self observation.
