Thank you for this rumination which goes a very long way... and if I might extend it just one more lap...
"Why have we lost so much confidence in human perception?" is an excellent question, which also contains a pathway out of the trap... ie - begin to develop and trust one's own perceptions a bit more... and, at least, realise that whatever the billion dollar studies say, they, too, are resting upon human perceptions - however augmented with sense-extending technologies, and digital processing.
But beyond that, is the question, "Why have we stopped paying attention to (directing our perception-sensing faculties towards) what the other beings* sharing this world have to tell us, and why have we so narrowed our listening and watching as to be restricting ourselves to that tiny slice of nature currently known as 'human expertise'"?
*And by "beings" I broadly include every kind that might be categorised either under the rubric of "biota" or - in a JMG coinage - "theota". Both native to this world, which is also our world.
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Re: So this is what not living under a rock feels like
Date: 2023-01-04 10:06 am (UTC)"Why have we lost so much confidence in human perception?" is an excellent question, which also contains a pathway out of the trap... ie - begin to develop and trust one's own perceptions a bit more... and, at least, realise that whatever the billion dollar studies say, they, too, are resting upon human perceptions - however augmented with sense-extending technologies, and digital processing.
But beyond that, is the question, "Why have we stopped paying attention to (directing our perception-sensing faculties towards) what the other beings* sharing this world have to tell us, and why have we so narrowed our listening and watching as to be restricting ourselves to that tiny slice of nature currently known as 'human expertise'"?
*And by "beings" I broadly include every kind that might be categorised either under the rubric of "biota" or - in a JMG coinage - "theota". Both native to this world, which is also our world.