Blind Mole. Redux.

I like evolution. I like the way our genes are transferred imperfectly from generation to generation ironically to achieve a better adapted being. Just think about it, imperfections leading to perfection. It's amazing.

However, what we are provided with is what we experience the world around us with. Just as the blind mole believes that it exists in a world filled with smells, we try to understand the world with the five senses we have been provided. What if we actually need more senses to make full sense of the world but the evolutionary process has just not been able to get us there yet.

What's worse is that maybe some of us have been provided those genes that allow us to develop that sixth sense. But we have discarded that evolutionary leap and instead made efforts to fit in with everybody around us. Maybe we would understand what ghosts and spirits really are. Maybe we would be able to explain all the physical phenomenon that we have so far been unable to explain. Maybe we would no longer call those flying objects 'unidentified'. Maybe if we had more senses we would know that this world works with a fourth, fifth or sixth dimension.

But we have been blessed with faculties more powerful than any other being on earth - self consciousness, the ability to reason, logic and mathematics. Do these powers enable us to understand the truth of the world or are they simply allowing us to make sense of the world as we know it. In other words, would these powers enable us to discover the other qualities of the universe by bringing us out of our existing shells or do they impede our understanding by simply trying to haphazardly explain the world we live in?

Many of the theories and laws that we hold as hallowed truths are constantly being disputed by every new generation of thinkers and scientists who have new evidence to suggest that our current understanding of the world is flawed. The deeper understanding we develop of any field of study, the more unknowns we run into. Even Mathematics, a field of study we are proud to say is completely based on universal logic, cannot exist without crutches.Take for instance the imaginary number 'i', without which certain calculations in negative numbers is just plain impossible.

Is the body of knowledge we have accumulated since the dawn of consciousness of man taking us in a direction towards a better understanding of the universe or are we inserting imaginary numbers everywhere we run into things we cannot fathom so that we can believe we have a decent understanding of the world and gain some comfort in that almost baseless belief. Did we create the concept of 'God' in a similar effort?

My mind wanders and ponders these kinds of issues. I might be completely rambling and thinking with the wrong organ, but I thought I should put my thoughts down and let you guys offer your opinions and thereby help me make better sense of this world I don't fully understand. :)