Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes

On Mon, 19 May 2025 16:59:06 -0000 (UTC), Marion wrote:

On Mon, 19 May 2025 10:07:19 +0000, Farley Flud wrote :
 
 

Perhaps the only thing we can truly know is that we know nothing...
or is that just another thing we think we know?
 
 

Quantum mechanics gave humans the first inkling that the human
brain/mind cannot comprehend ultimate reality.
 
Some still attempt to rationalize quantum theory but the wise folks
don't bother and just use it as a (supremely accurate) calculation
tool.

 
Ah, a fellow traveler down the rabbit hole of quantum weirdness who
realizes the limits of a monkey brain - which is - after all - us.

The problem is as you try to explain the limits you wind up with Zen.
Nietzsche tried to make the leap when he described our world as an
artistic rendering of reality. Korzybski took a pass at it with 'the map
is not the territory'.