Let’s face it. We cannot know everything. There are limits to what we can understand. I suspect that some of you reading this already disagree with what I have written so far. Some of you think so highly of human ability and human potential that you are apt to believe that actually, we really can know […]
Continue reading →My Theory of Relative Understanding is a hypothesis. It is an idea seeking proof, or disproof. Yet it seems to me that it has not been disproven yet. And if the hypothesis is true, or even partly true, there are some pretty wild implications. The hypothesis challenges some assumptions. For one thing, there is a lot […]
Continue reading →There is no such thing as absolute truth. Truth is not something that is or isn’t. Rather, there are degrees of truth. Not only that, there are multiple truths. And there are infinite multiple degrees of infinite multiple truths. My truest truth is what I know best; what I most understand. These are things that […]
Continue reading →Caution. Wild ideas ahead. The farther down the page, the wilder they get. By “pace of time” I mean how fast time seems to be passing. It is widely presumed that the pace of time is a universal constant; that time marches along at a constant pace from the beginning of time to the distant […]
Continue reading →Caution. Ideas under construction. Participation encouraged. Short Version Understand before you decide. If you don’t know much, don’t do much. Medium Version For long term and widespread good, the impact of a decision should not exceed the amount of understanding on which it is based. Rule out alternatives where understanding is relatively low and potential impact […]
Continue reading →Caution. Ideas under construction. Participation encouraged. We understand best those things that are closest to us and those things that are in scale with us. The first part of my Theory of Relative Understanding is that understanding is relative to proximity in space and time, and it’s relative to proximity in scale. In other words, […]
Continue reading →To understand something, anything, two things need to happen. I need to be able to detect some sort of data coming from the thing and I need to be able to analyze that data. In terms of detection, most humans have five senses. We can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. Basically all information that […]
Continue reading →Caution. Ideas under construction. Participation encouraged. Home Units are used to discern distance from the point of view of the measurer. Using Home Units reminds us that how time and space look and how far away things seem is always relative to the scale of the measurer. The concept of Home Units is something I […]
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