We have a biased reflection on a scale.
We live in a specific range and evolution has optimized to perceive it best for survival. We see things of a large millimeter to (from the point of view of the point and the field). And we perceive time in a few years to years.
Our brains have adapted to reality on this scale. But it is not the only scale that exists. There are much smaller and larger things, there is much smaller and much larger time. There are (seven?) Other dimensions in addition to 3D and time. And if we perceive these scales, our “knowledge” of what is and what is not – would have been different.
This asymmetrical perception makes us “fill the gaps” with what we “see” which does not correspond to the scale with explanations and invented intuitions. This is how our brain works – fill the gaps in order to “pass” to the next challenge which was – in most of human existence – existential.
This asymmetrical perception of reality on the scale in which we exist makes us tend to do things that we “perceive” as the only “truth”. As “given”. But we have to realize that this only comes from our scale of scale.
Take an example of time and decision. If we were a creature that has a lifespan of 1,000 years – we would have examined risk -taking differently every day. If the passage of the road to the United States can kill you in a chance of 1: 485 during your ordinary lifespan, it means over 1,000 years – your chances fall to 1: 5 (which ended our current lifespan at 80). It is to cross the street. Conduct? It would be completely out of the question. At 1: 0.7, that's it except a certainty of death.
It is difficult for us to think how small and insignificant we are in the universe (my children loved this illustration) and through time. It is difficult to perceive how super complex systems can “spontaneously” emerge from an apparently random range of tiny construction blocks – without any planning, design or foresight.
We look at our current knowledge and our state of things and imagine “that's it” – that's how the world is. We only forget a few centuries and even decades – we had no idea of the microscopic world, DNA, a large part of physics, psychology and a large part of what we take today as even existed.
Even what we know as English – which we consider to be understood among people, would be completely unintelligible for the same people 1000 years ago. The Englishman has changed so much into a single millennium. And good luck with reading up to 1,300 years ago – when setting up a space between the words was invented for the first time.
