Panos said he was going to write a paper that explained the world and this intrigues me. I find this interesting because I wonder what relevance his final paper could have to anyone else but himself. No, not because what he writes isn't true, but more because no two people EVER understand the same thing in the same way. I feel this alone is the greatest problem facing the world today, nobody, or at least few, grasp the concept that understanding is not posible for humans, and therefore we are incapable of really achieving what we want.

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So why is understanding impossible you would consider? Simple, because the experiences of your lifetime, combined with your unique sequence of DNA and biological composition make you as you are now. Since nobody else in the world could have the exact same composition as you, then you are intrinsically different from everyone else on the planet, you are a LONE you, distinct. And therefore only you can ever feel, think, experience, and understand the way you do.

Example. "2 + 2 = 4", the cliche representing the most simple of mathmatical understanding. Everyone understands that right? Sure they do, but we all understand it differently. A mathmatician may understand it through a concept of matricies and how they combine together. Someone else may be thinking of what you have when you take 2 apples from here and combine it with 2 apples from there. Who knows? The point is that conceptually we cannot understand things the same exact way. When I say "love." Everyone brings forth a different assortment of experiences which become their perception of love, but no two people ever have the same two experiences.

I see this problem constantly, the problem of communication. Is it even possible to convey to someone the experience you have? No matter how hard you try you could never do that, the best you can do is to create an environment where someone MAY have a similar experience, but not the same.

I say it all the time, "I just don't understand ... " It could possibly be my most frequent phrase aside from the jargon of day to day conversation. The fact is that constantly I am plagued with the realization that people just CANNOT understand things as I do, no matter how I try, and to me, that is a very scary thought. But I guess you can't understand.

-- AG