Enlightenment rationality tells us to train our most intelligent people that the world is consistent and so if you find things that contradict each other and all things that matter can be flattened into believing one universal synthesis. This was an incredibly powerful worldview, because it helped us come up with Newtonian physics, which seemed to show a clockwork universe in line with enlightenment values.
In spite of being useful and intelligent, it is anti-wisdom, because to be rational and consistent is unwise in a world made at the quantum level of paradox.
Besides quantum mechanics at the very small level, we also come up with relativistic mechanics at the very large level which breaks Newtonian physics, which is quite unintuitive but I'm not going to talk about relativity right now.
What came next isn't necessarily any better, because instead of navigating all of the different things that are true at once, they just take one step into the fact that things can be contradictory and assume that nothing is true.
I mentioned the quantum level, and this is a good example where both of these views are wrong. At that level, things are true in ways that are sometimes contradictory, and we can't always know exactly what is true so we have to take our best guess at it, and in a lot of ways it's really difficult to pin anything down, but the important thing is in spite of that there are still rules that are followed, and so even though we might not be able to understand the objective truth it might not be knowable,it might not be measurable, it might not be intuitive, it might not be rational, might not be coherent, but it is absolutely true and by guiding ourselves towards what is true we can perform miracles.
In this case I'm talking about the stuff more like microchips than parting the Red Sea.
In spite of being useful and intelligent, it is anti-wisdom, because to be rational and consistent is unwise in a world made at the quantum level of paradox.
Besides quantum mechanics at the very small level, we also come up with relativistic mechanics at the very large level which breaks Newtonian physics, which is quite unintuitive but I'm not going to talk about relativity right now.
What came next isn't necessarily any better, because instead of navigating all of the different things that are true at once, they just take one step into the fact that things can be contradictory and assume that nothing is true.
I mentioned the quantum level, and this is a good example where both of these views are wrong. At that level, things are true in ways that are sometimes contradictory, and we can't always know exactly what is true so we have to take our best guess at it, and in a lot of ways it's really difficult to pin anything down, but the important thing is in spite of that there are still rules that are followed, and so even though we might not be able to understand the objective truth it might not be knowable,it might not be measurable, it might not be intuitive, it might not be rational, might not be coherent, but it is absolutely true and by guiding ourselves towards what is true we can perform miracles.
In this case I'm talking about the stuff more like microchips than parting the Red Sea.
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