Three-Body Episode 10

Fishy business ... if you know something more than someone else does that make you a god?

All the talk about 'aliens' is interesting ... I think it is 'fishy business' myself.

If there is alien 'interference', then I wonder who made them 'god'. Seems to me if the aliens are interfering, then they are doing the same thing on an intergalactic scale as humans are doing on a planetary scale. That the aliens can seemingly defy known earth-based 'physics' as understood by the humans residing there, doesn't necessarily mean they are "lords" or "gods" ... they are just another model of turkey in my mind ... though from the perspective of humanity they might look like omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient gods.

Humans are really limited when it comes to perceiving and measuring the world around them ... we don't smell or hear as well as dogs, see as well as birds ... we don't have radar like bats ... we cannot 'taste' the air like snakes, we cannot sense underlying electrical fields of life like stingrays and sharks ... we cannot see infrared ... we really are limited etc etc. Even though we have machines and computers that compensate for a lot of that, humans still have a propensity to get all smug in what they 'know' and think their views are infalliable ... smh ... such conceit and arrogance given out human and planetary limitations.

This conceit reminds me of white swans. Back in the day before Australia was 'found' and explored, the world view about swans was that all swans are white, they always have been and always will be. They knew this through direct observation and repetition of swan life cycles. However, someone takes a boat trip to Australia and finds black swans ... oopsy ... the "white swan" world view just went out the window, though some did kick and scream about having to change their opinion. From our small planetary vantage point, with our limited senses (both physical and mechanical) how can we ever really 'know' something 'for sure' ... we are not 'everywhere', we do not know 'all things' and we do not have all 'power' to be everywhere and know everything. Quantum mechanics is a classic example ... and didn't it upset the apple cart.

All this 'there is no physics' is fascinating in this context ... and it is getting more and more metaphysical too ... who am I ... how did I come to exist in the first place ... what is the purpose of existence, if there is even such a thing ... what / who should I believe ... what should I do ... where should I go ... what happens to 'me' after death of the body and so on ... do the answers to these questions have any relevance or bearing with the sheer struggle of surviving the life you are living? Very interesting.

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