Smart people grow up trying to understand everything, then they get into a smart people job like engineering or science
Their intelligence makes them savvy on a niche of a niche, and they try to understand it
in that understanding, they build a working knowledge that [abstracts things](understand-abstractions)
unfortunately, abstraction is always simpler than reality, and it’s impossible to truly understand the full inner workings of anything
and, if we examine more closely, we’ll find that x answers creates x^2 questions
the reason why is because complexity is reality itself, and we are incapable of fully seeing it
there are only several possible reasons for this complexity:
- this could be a trick of nature and we are fermenting in a floundering mistaken understanding (i.e., we’re just looking at it wrong)
- the complexity is the only thing that could really make everything work correctly in the universe’s random formation
- the universe was formed from the beginning with this complexity for some other reason (e.g., God’s relationship with man)
and, this has a profound effect on how we learn new things
- we are going about looking at things wrong until we can find the “right way to see things”, and we will endlessly be troubling ourselves
- we are either incapable of truly comprehending anything legitimately, so we are simply entertaining ourselves in an existentially expanding void of knowledge
- there is another non-technical reason for why we do things (i.e., the domain of religion)