This is a sticky one. Largely it becomes a tautology.

Our concept of what is "possible" is shaped by what we have done, and to an extent what we believe other people have done. In the workings of our mind, you cannot actually disprove anything, only prove, and only then by actually doing.

For example, you cannot tell me you can't fly because you cannot preclude that it cannot happen. You can however, fly, and then know that it is possible.

In the...

I am going to start where we are, which is several tiers into the complexity, and I'll bounce around a bit to explain, but I will aim to move toward the real, unabstracted reality.

We have created society, civilization. Massive, multi-tiered organization of all of the things in the world. This organization is artificial. Arbitrary. All of our sub-systems are as well. A best-guess fit to the world as we experience it through a pin-hole.

One point of interest, as it has...

Here's my working theory.

All of existence is continuous, always moving, and everything is connected. There are no true barriers, at most there are influences that inhibit or redirect the flow, but in truth these are like a stone blocking the ocean.

In this continuum things simply are. We, as thinking creatures within this existence, distinguish and contrast things as a way to allow our brain to record and learn. Without contrast, without filters, it is extreme over-immersion...

I think about things a lot. As a short explanation, as anyone reading here wouldn't likely know about my meanderings, one of my current foci for meditation is on sensory development. Honing the 5 sentences and the murky ones not well-defined in our modern science/understanding.

To that end I've spent a lot of time focusing on the sensory experience of, well, everything. Looking closely at things, soft focus to take in more and pick out details quickly. Smell, period. Take in the smells...

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