I think this is the biggest problem I see in people trying to understand deeper fields of study, a concept is just too large or out of our perceived reality to even make sense without years of knowledge. I think people fall into the “woo woo” just because it’s easier to not really know versus becoming a doctorate in a field of study who has slowly built that knowledge on the fundamental principles needed.

But either way, when you start, you just have to accept that something has a cause and effect. We can’t see most fields, just have to accept they are there and interacting the proposed ways because of our tiny little sensors. Sometimes, we just have to say “ok” even if it boggles the mind.

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    66 months ago

    The first philosophical astonishment is that anything at all exists. When I was first learning mathematics I was astonished to see that x2 + y2 = 1 was the formula to create a circle : such a simple formula to create something so fundamental was astonishing to me.
    Today I would say our capacity to be astonished is probably an important mechanism to help us stop and say to ourselves : “hey ! there is something important to learn here !”