Knowing the "unknown"

We can only recognize what we can sense

Humans can only sense limited information. For example, humans can only see visible light. Some butterflies are known to sense and communicate with ultraviolet. Humans can't sense, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays, etc.

Humans can't hear dog whistles. Humans can't sense magnetic fields. Humans can't feel seismic waves.

In math, we learn about imaginary numbers. But can we recognize them?

What if, there was a whole world that we couldn't recognize

Humans talk about other intelligent life. What if they were right next to you? Could it so happen that you can't sense them?

What if life could exist in a form that humans couldn't sense?

Nobody said that intelligent life had to be in a form of a human or octopus-like or other grotesque forms.

What if, other species of life were more intelligent than humans?

What is the definition of intelligence? I wrote about that in my previous post, but what is it? Are humans intelligent?

Think about it. If you were a highly intelligent living being and were to observe humans from another part of the galaxy, would you recognize them as intelligent?

Humans are very aggressive. They have events called "war", a violent act when there is a dispute. They create things called "weapons" for the single purpose of killing each other.

Humans also exploit resources from their only inhabitance to a scale that they are heading to extinction.

Could they be intelligent? Could it be possible to have a peaceful and collaborative relationship with these humans? If I were these highly intelligent living beings, I would be in high doubt.

Could dogs or cats, or even ants be more intelligent than humans? None of them actively kill each other or any other species. They do no activity to run themselves extinct.

The ultra-natural

There are ongoing experiments with twins all over the world. There are many objections to these experiments, but one of them is telepathy. Twins somehow know what is happening to each other.

Nobody understands how this works.

The illusion of knowledge

With so many books in libraries and bookstores, with so many theses, and with so many search results, we are in an illusion that we know so much.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton