How do you cope with ambiguity? How do you deal with the knowledge that not everyone can be right, and that in fact, everyone is wrong. Especially you. How do you get by knowing that this paradigm will be supplanted by another that completely changes the way things are seen, rendering your point of view obsolete? How do you deal with the knowledge that knowledge is confabulation? Once you’ve gone to the meta level and seen how flawed how you see is, how can you go on seeing the same way? Once you’ve gone meta, how can you go back?
Perhaps this line of thinking is mental masturbation that is disconnected from first-order reality. Survival of lower order animals certainly doesn’t require this kind of thinking. And survival of humans doesn’t seem to either. But what of higher order beings? Is their some advantage to the insane twisties of cognitive science and the clouding of consciousness that results from diving too deep? The systematic deconstruction of certainty. Certainty in uncertainty.
Oh, to escape thinking and just be first-order again. Perhaps that is where meditation comes in. But if language does structure your brain, then maybe once you’ve gone meta you can never go back. Even meditation won’t be the same. It’s all second order from here.
I think this post needs more context, otherwise it is like man ambiguity man, its ambiguous am I right?
But seriously at some point you just have to accept you have a limited point of view and are probably wrong on a lot of things, accept and live your life as best you can.
