Aug 2 Additional

 On the theme of quick approximations causing long term issues, versus putting a brake on things and considering things from all angles.

It occurs to me this covers a couple of different related things.

Quantum mechanics. Where before you measure a thing it is in a quantum superstate. Not one thing or another. It certainly exists. But not in a way you can relate to it. Not in a way that you can properly frame it. It rejects your subjective view point.

Once you measure it, it collapses down to a given state. But. In the act of doing so. You have forever changed it.

Also. Taoism. And the whole. You cannot measure the unmeasurable. Same deal. It can exist as the unmeasurable in some state that you can't get to. It is not within your context. If you are able to pull it into your context, your subjective bubble and measure it, it is no longer what it was.

In the same way.

Whenever we grapple with understanding something. We put it into terms we understand. We shift its state from where it truly is, into something that is easy for us to grasp. Translated. But in doing so. It is no longer truly the thing it was. It's now subject to human context. Polluted if you like.

This is also exactly how our memory works. It's the same process. The continual interaction with the subject, and each time you examine that memory it can shift slightly. Each time you pick the cube up and put it down again, it is placed in a slightly different way. Everything you interact with, changes. Because that's the only way we can process it. 

And this. Is just us. Trying to interpret the universe at large down into a form we can comprehend, deal with. We cannot encompass the entire universe in our heads. We have to compress it, abstract it, simplify it, until it is in a form we can interact with. But in doing so. God has become man. You've lost what it truly was. And now it is as much a reflection of the thinker as it is its original form.

A short version of this, is that everything you touch, you mess up and get your grubby fingerprints over it.

I think this at the level of that fast approximation thinking that is who we are, is like the encoding of how exactly we make mistakes. It's the equation that shows you how and why we continually fuck up, jump to conclusions, can't grasp the actuality, and best case scenario have to backtrack and think again.

I think this is also why true "enlightenment" ( or more accurately some poor cousin of it ) from a human perspective can only be achieved by repetition and much trial and error. Possibly with a heavy dose of trying very hard to not be human about it. You can, kinda, make up for being error prone by repeating something and tracking the difference in results. Sometimes. You can see the scientific method also attaches to this methodology. Or at least a fucked up inverse form of it as "Reproducible results".

In any case. I think therein lies the answer to why we are wrong about many things. Not from a, oh you came to the wrong conclusion malarkey. But from a generalised form of the problem. Why the phenomenon exists for us as human observers.

Really it's just a function of limited bandwidth and a problem space that exceeds our capacity. So in order to consider it. We have to chop off the ends. Take out the middle. Nail it back together. And import some butchered form of it that fits into our living rooms.

I think also. If you know this. There is some worth to be had in trying to consider things from a universal perspective. Don't try and compress it down. Instead. Try and get as many snapshots of it as possible and slowly work your way around it and realise that it will be a slow and difficult process. It's not one built for speed - or figuring out whether thats a real tiger or not. It's one built for a more accurate understanding of the universe around you. And. Where you stand within it, from a limited perspective point of view. Once you realise that you can only see a tiny slither of the picture, it helps then to understand you need a bigger sample of slithers. Rather than trying to make sense of the slither in your own context and relating it back.

Compression run wild.

I think we need bigger brains basically. More RAM perhaps. 

Also.

Condensed note. Answer to everything and understanding the bigger picture. Communication of.

Consider Douglas Adams, question and answer to life the universe and everything and how it cannot be framed in a simple form. 42. What ? What was the question ? I don't know ! Exactly. A bit like trying to summarise the lord of the rings in 3 words. Hobbit. Ring. Shadow. What the fuck does that mean. Well yes. Precisely. Its compressed to the point of incomprehension. But. You can't grok it without reading the whole thing. Or at least going for a longer summary. 

Also also. Shrink process. An undiscovered benefit. Something like a journalling process. But. For all the "tangents". As well as how it relates to me. I don't get that anywhere else.