“Humans invent their own realities to make sense of the infinitely complex worlds they are in,” which seems only natural to me as we are really only pattern recognition meme machines anyway.
If we can’t fit our perception of reality into an understood framework, we invariably cheat.
I am fascinated by emergent systems and memetics to the extent that I founded and run Memes.org.
Funny I should mention memes as the man who coined the term and hammered the concept into form is the same man who considers the Universe ‘too queer’ to grasp.
Richard Dawkins is quoted as saying “successive generations have come to terms with the increasing queerness of the Universe.” He added that “we were living in a “middle world” reality that we have created.”
In other words, maybe Aldous Huxley is right in his book, Doors of Perception, when he suggests that there is an infinity of information and stimuli washing over us in a barrage and it is our mind’s responsibility to filter out anything that impairs our ability to survive.
In other words, we cherry pick each stimulus, filtering our the stimuli that either confound or confuse.
This very much an analog to Dawkin’s comment, “Middle world is like the narrow range of the electromagnetic spectrum that we see. Middle world is the narrow range of reality that we judge to be normal as opposed to the queerness that we judge to be very small or very large.”
It is such a delight when arts, letters, science, and sociology line up in harmonic convergence, so to speak.
