Well said and very insightful.. I'm from the confirmation bias ;)
[quote:] "The human brain has limits, for example we are unable to quantify large numbers. Try picturing 5 trillion in your head."
This reminds me of an imaginary example Muslim scholars made up to explain how our limited abilities cannot deal with metaphysics.. It goes:
Imagine someone blind all his life.. He was granted normal vision for a split second at one point and all he saw was a rooster's head . After having this very limited experience of seeing a roosters's head he went blind again. Whenever anyone tries to describe something to him he'd say: "How is it compared to a rooster's head?"
This life is the rooster's head that we saw and try to relate everything to it..
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You need Religion so when everyone goes to Paradise you're not left behind..
Well said and very insightful.. I'm from the confirmation bias ;)
[quote:] "The human brain has limits, for example we are unable to quantify large numbers. Try picturing 5 trillion in your head."
This reminds me of an imaginary example Muslim scholars made up to explain how our limited abilities cannot deal with metaphysics.. It goes:
Imagine someone blind all his life.. He was granted normal vision for a split second at one point and all he saw was a rooster's head . After having this very limited experience of seeing a roosters's head he went blind again. Whenever anyone tries to describe something to him he'd say: "How is it compared to a rooster's head?"
This life is the rooster's head that we saw and try to relate everything to it..
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You need Religion so when everyone goes to Paradise you're not left behind..