Perspective & Truth

People love talking about how no one has the ultimate truth using certain stories like:

○ The 3 Vinegar tasters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinegar_tasters

3 men taste vinegar from a pot, and the 3 react differently: sour, sweet, and bitter

→ In some version of this Asian story the 3 men are -respectively- Confucius, Laozi, and Buddha as an allegory for each one’s philosophy.

 

○ The Blind Men and The Elephant : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant

A bunch of blind people touching each part of an elephant thinking it’s all like that, but lacking the whole/”real” picture to know what shape, form, strength, tensility, and nature if the creature.

This parable teaches that without proper sense/perspective/sight, no one really is right; here, the elephant could be seen as life or truth, everyone claims to understand it, but eachone only know part of it.

○ “6” and “9”:

○ Real Form VS Its Shadow:

The thing though is that these stories are just good tools to approximate the idea of relativism or agnosticism ..They aren’t measuring tools.. nor will they ever be.. and in fact we may never have such tools because dimensionality is both nested & recursive. So it doesn’t matter what truth we discover in the future, there will always corresponding layer overlaying and underlaying it.

From a utilitarian point of view, being able to peek into slightly higher dimensionality & find a rudimentary perceptional platonic form (Philosopher Stone) could render metamaterial production frictionless, and our underlaying 3D matter transmutation plausible through processes that take from all the 12 types of Logic (Philosopher Stone): Informal, Formal, Symbolic, Mathematical, Classical, Modal, Temporal, Epistemic, Deontic, Fuzzy, Intuitionistic, and Paraconsistent Logic.