Of course, now that I think about it, by calling things “abstractions”, I may be simply calling them unreal. Yet, I don’t believe the world is illusion. It’s real enough. But I find it hard to accept that little 3-7 foot tall humans with brains the size of bowling balls, extensions of our nervous systems formed to process irritations to our expectations to form memories that we can then use to deal with more and more detailed irritations and reconcile them… can honestly say that we can know it all.
And I’m a know it all. So this is disturbing to me. Hence, my research