Is it Round?

I want somebody/something to do to the perception of the Universe what Magellan did to that of the Earth. That would reduce the Clutter a lot.

Tip of the Iceberg

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Language is a complex multidimensional trap in which "communication" is only a bait.

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Aliens, at least some (or the more important ones), are beings of the subconscious. They visited us a long time ago, when man was a simple child. What they did to him appears to us today as sowing of the seed of language. His world was changed so irreversibly that what they actually did is not knowable to him. From their perspective, it is definitely much more intricate than "sowing the seed of language". The next time you see a painting or listen to a tune, even if it is crayon on ruled paper or some notes from a toy piano, remember that it is a rebellion against them. Writers whose works take us to other worlds are merely thinning the fog that exists between worlds. They are not creating anything.

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Someone inviting their opponent to "talk things over" must be confident of their skills in talking, if they understand the odds correctly. Tortoises are generally reluctant to go to races with hares, even after that famous and exceptional case. Hares are mischievously smiling at the backs, or 'the tail ends' to be more precise for quadrupeds (this human language!), of tortoises who agreed to do this.

From Point A to Point B

If science, with its own army of space probes, electron microscopes and particle accelerators, is trying to move from the point of absolute ignorance to the point of omniscience, why is it ignoring some other aspects of knowledge, say, history? Or humanities? Or more importantly, epistemology? Is it so determined that it does not accept some forms of knowledge? Or is it not about knowledge at all?