Pushing the Envelope

Perhaps, expanding the scale and scope of consciousness* may be the ultimate means to illuminate the range of our ignorance that seems infinite. Hence, learning is absolutely essential regardless of age given human brain is plastic. These billions of neurons wired across the room of our brain didn’t evolve for nothing less than anything considered to be trivial or shallow. It should be capable to stretch out over the furthest, unknown territory no one has ever explored — fostered relentlessly by this stubborn drive ‘to know.’ At this point, as the universe expands with time the limits of possibility also become less significant over time.

“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”

— Karl Popper

Like a ship sails against the wind all the way to the promising end of ocean only to discover that there is no end from which the sea rolls indefinitely, and yet a wide horizon within the sight of the captain attracts his sense of wonder — there must be something more. So what if the universe may be just a bigger round of all planets combined? That pitch black ceiling we look up every night could probably be a singular layer of innumerable layers beyond.

What if…

Well, if… then…

And yet…

As we go along with this unending barrage of uncertainty, paradoxically enough, there appears to be somewhere down the road. For the road had begun to elucidate as the lantern of our mind kept propel us forward. Questions became ahead of their time because potential answers in the future had attracted them. The present moment used to be unthinkable future. Now as the fruit of possibility rewards us with novelty, we only have to get used to it, adapt and immerse in. Until something strange tingles our head, we then start to wonder again whether there is something missing…

*A tweet I borrowed from Elon Musk