“The problems with human cognition remind me of ‘glass walls’ in fish tanks. We sense there’s something outside them, but it’s both terrifying and very difficult to discover what it is.

Imagine fish in tanks trying to consider the possibility that ‘not all water exists in a box in a human house’.

The ‘form’ of this problem closely resembles what we face in our minds, due to our peculiar vulnerability to ‘conceptual models’ of processes, circumstances, things, beings and the universe.

We are dominated by features of our minds that should be toys enabling us to explore beyond them… rather than somehow enforcing their structure, proclamations and bounds as ‘the facts’.”

— infraheard