The ways in which we perceive the world are countless or are as many as there are humans on this Earth. We think constantly. We form a hypothesis. We try to predict the future in order to feel secure. We ache continuously and we carry our pain with us as we go. After all, there isn't much of a choice, is there? If we allowed ourselves to be stopped by pain, then none of us would move forward and we would never have been able to reach what reached as a collective. But there is one truth that is lurking at the edge of every domain of consciousness; the more we know the less we understand. For me, this shatters my logic into pieces and forces me to ask myself, why do we pursue knowledge in the first place? If we know that we will never explain the world, why do we even try? If we know that we will never attain perfection, why do dream of it and act out those dreams?


 


The deeper we go, the further darker, yet, richer the ocean seems to be. But, in reality, we know nothing about what is in there and we are dead sure that we will never have it all figured out. I once read a statement that says: there are things that we do not know, that we do not even know we do not know. And God only knows what is hidden there or what can be waiting for us in the future. It is mind-boggling. An analogy to that would be the expansion of the universe. It is expanding at a much faster rate than light can travel. So we know that there are places in the universe that we will never ever be able to observe no matter how advanced we get, at least according to the current laws that govern physics. Maybe someone will come and revolutionise the way we study the world, but really what is the likelihood of that?! 


 


Mathematics has been around for tens of centuries and yet no one could resolve the one dilemma; is it invented or discovered? Our intellect runs into these little pieces of existence we call dilemmas, and it stops there. Every claim we make after that can be interpreted in the frame of faith. It becomes what you believe. And how could two different concepts like faith and intellect or reason mix up in that way? Well, I don't know. It seems absurd. So, honestly, if we can't figure out these little dilemmas that are created by our own minds, how can we make sense of the world that we perceive through our incredibly flawed lenses?!


 


If we had a foggy window, we would get frustrated because it impairs our vision. Yet, our senses are mind-bogglingly impaired but we don't notice because our minds are especially good at blocking out information. We don't like to know of our limitations even when we are limited in the fundamental nature of our being. The same thing happens when we are exposed to an unpleasant smell; it takes no more than a few minutes and it is no longer relevant. However, one example remains as the one reminder of this phenomenon; your own nose is always in the way of your eyes and it continuously obstructs your vision, but your mind has chosen to ignore it, without you even noticing. Without your permission, your mind does a lot of work. One extra example of this would be the infamous Charles Darwin. He used to go to some sort of natural history museum (the name left my mind for now). There was a cobra which was put in a glass confinement. He persistently put his face on the glass and tried to control his reflexes every time the cobra tried to attack. He could not control himself at all. And I guess we all have things that we do without controlling ourselves. It isn't something new.


 


I think I have strayed from the main idea. The world is inconceivably complex, period. However, there is one interesting (interesting isn't enough to describe the way I feel) thing about the patterns that appear in the way people think. I estimate that people who have a theory that summarises everything outnumber those who realise, to some degree, that the world is beyond comprehension. The right question here is, why is it so? Well from what I have learned, the one thing that humans are good at is simplifying complex structures. This, as far as I am concerned, is where language, names and categories originated from, which is an absolutely brilliant invention. And the same principle applies to my next argument.


 


People invent simplified models of the world in order to avoid dealing with all sorts of things that they don't understand. It is like someone denying the Theory of Evolution just because it contradicts the way her/his model of the world, which in turn, was formed by the religious narrative of how the world came into existence. In this way, that person doesn't have to think. This is weird by the way, because as far as we came to know, we are the only creatures capable of thinking and yet we avoid it constantly. Illogical and typical of a human being. I have seen people who have a Theory of Everything. They made me think poor Stephen Hawking, you spent your lifetime suffering and struggling to get closer to figure out if such a theory exists, while there were people who found it way earlier. Technically it doesn't matter. If you have a theory that makes everything manageable, then is there any logical reason to deny it?! Unlike Hawking, this is not natural science; it is human science (logic doesn't quite apply here, sorry!). This is why you can't prove it wrong when arguing with someone like this. It works out perfectly well for them, so who are you to tell them otherwise? And, truly, who is to tell them otherwise? You are a human after all. You have your own ridiculous theories and ideologies and that is what matters. Have a set of beliefs that can make you live in peace with yourself.