DEEP THOUGHTS
Blair Rothstein states, "It is odd that we will never truly know how it began. We can only speculate and give our best guess. Through our own devices we have been able to produce evidence that these guesses are close to the truth. But centuries from now, will the human race compare us to those who once thought of the Earth as the center of the universe?"
This thought makes me wonder what we will discover if we can only break free of the confines of our five senses. We have overcome the limits of our eyes; we have created telescopes and ways of detecting light waves beyond the visible spectrum, and we have created microscopes. We have learned to detect the world around us through deductive reasoning given evidence. We have not come to understand our brains and it seems to me that coming to understand our brains will be the first step in overcoming the limits of our brains. The brain is like a riddle or a puzzle meant for us to solve and understand so that we may grow. It makes me wonder what gave us such a puzzle and what must await us when we know it. It is human nature that what we learn we will use as a tool. Perhaps the secrets of the universe are a matter of understanding our own brains and bodies so that we can have new ways of perception beyond the five senses.