Unfinished; Epistemology and the Human Condition

     How many of us realize how complicated the world is? When faced with certain questions, we may admit this truth. Or we may pretend we have the answers. My least favorite type of person is someone who claims to have all the answers. Or admit that they don't only to tell you how to live your life. Most people think of everything in focused terms. This is how we must live in order to be sane. There are those who relinquish their sanity for the sake of seeking truth. This must be the case. Many of us are sane, we can have a conversation or a thought and analyze it. Most of us make a decision and move on. However, it is never truly as simple as this. A simple statement or question can materialize so many other questions and thoughts. This is what I like to think Philosophy is. Not stopping at a plausible solution and demanding to find the truth. Of course, at least at this point in my life, I believe everyone eventually finds out that truth is relative. Relative or impossible to determine. It is a fact that we may not know the full truth about anything because there may always be a factor that we can not see or measure. We need tools to measure things we can't see using our natural senses. What tools haven't we created? What tools can we not create? What is beyond our understanding? Our intelligence is limited and it always will be. In the same way, a Mantis Shrimp can see up to ten times more colors than humans, what else can other animals see? Bats use echolocation, something technology allows us to use. These are examples we are aware of, but there are infinite possibilities of what may or may not be surrounding us that we can not, and never will be able to, discover. So what is knowledge? I say knowledge is relative but, generally, I would say it is what the vast majority of people agree upon. Knowledge is relative in the way a blind person sees nothing at all. If the world was blind, what would we believe? The blind person takes it on faith that there is sight. So taking this into account, how can we trust a single piece of information given to us? Does it not make sense to interrogate and analyze every single little thing to the best of our abilities? How can we even trust our own senses? The world could be a delusion. Or a simulation. Or an atom of a god. It could be anything, this is true. Yet, we all walk around, acting like fools pretending we know anything. Starting wars over disagreements in which neither party is likely right. And it seems that, with just a little thought, this is obvious, no? Why bet human lives on being right? For that matter, why bet a relationship or your dignity? Why die on any hill when there are infinite possibilities? Then, how do you live life? Would you not become an empty shell of a human, ignorant of everything because it may mean nothing? So what is emotion? Why do we feel powerful when listening to a song or small when embarrassed in front of a group of people? What is this dictated by? I believe the best evidence behind the importance of asking these types of questions is that we can. It may be an evolutionary mistake but if it is, then we are in it together. If there is more meaning, then we're in this together. Due to the seeming randomness of human life, to me, it makes sense that we cherish each other deeply. Do whatever makes you happy without costing someone else their happiness. We are in this humanity bullshit together, let's not make it any worse than it has to be. 

--- Unfinished; got tired. I have much more to say on this topic so I will continue it eventually but I'm gonna have to take it back up on another day.