3 November 2023

A struggle people have with the Internet is being overwhelmed by information. It isn’t natural to know what’s happening around the world at all times, or to travel through time with the wayback machine. All that information makes people think they’re smart and by one definition they are, knowing everything. With unlimited information and now AI making up information, proof can be found to support any claim. Our pre-internet bodies run on the thinking, “If this then that”, but the internet is everything all at once. Seeing something through a screen is not proof that anything other than a computer program happened, but all too often people treat their entertainment as real life. Karl Popper argued that science doesn’t prove anything, but disproves. The scientific method begins with a hypothesis before any experiments and should have multiple hypothesises to disprove other effects on the results. Everyone wants to champion truth, I doubt any of them ever find it. Change is constant, that’s about as true as it gets. Rather than thinking there is a hold grail to be found I believe in readiness, to be the best version of myself for whatever may happen. Part of being ready is collecting a lot of other people’s “truths” in an attempt to understand this crazy thing called life. The truth is a perfect sphere and humans can only see in Platonic solids. Today I’m certain the baby said, “book” and pointed at a book she wanted to me to pull out. She’s beginning to communicate and already understands me better than I her. All this truth talk is too old for her and I’m not sure I should even be on about it, but the search for Truth is an abyss I’ve seen many people lose themselves to. What will be, will be. See you on Monday.