The existence and perpetuation of frameworks of explanation is one of my greatest sources of headaches. Everythign people do, it seems to me, is based upon the construction of theoretical frameworks designed to explain their world and make predictions. The thign is, a theortetical framework is simply a compression algorithm; it’s a way of reducing everything we’ve seen to an amount of information that is easily rememberable.
When will we realize that compression is not truth, that there is no way of knowing anything for certain, and that you can easily provide two wildly different frameworks that have the same predictive capability and are therefore logically equivalent? When will we learn to truly respect each other, no matter how wildly our opinions diverge? Or will we ever learn such a thing? Will we always be doomed to be yelling at each other across chasms of different philosophical underpinnings, which are orthoganal to each other and yet somehow converge in predictive capability?
I claim to not belieive anything, but really i believe some things very strongly. I think tha tlife is worth living, that you shoul dalways tell the truth, and that you should not put any weight onto what others will say.
Will we find love? Will we die alone? Will we ever know the intimacy we crave? Can we be close with a stranger? can we love our enemies? Can we truly realize the universal nature of creation, that our own identities are merely self-propogating delusions and that our conciousness’ separation from that of our co-enhabitants is merely a result of the damn rules that drive our system?
I do not know, but i hope positively for the future 