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So heres one I gave some contemplation to...
It started with my thoughts on physics and biology. The human eye can sense light that is within a certain range of wavelengths. For our eye, this range is relatively small (approx 400 - 700 nanometers I think). However, there is an infinite range of wavelengths of light, many of them around us all the time, but we cannot see it. Some wavelengths that we cannot see can still affect us (burn us or something), and some we cannot detect with our body at all but can with specialized equipment, and who knows what else is out there that we do not even have the technology to detect yet.
Similiar situation with sound. We can hear a certain range of frequencies or wavelengths, but there are many sound waves around us all the time that we cannot hear. A dog can hear a better range than humans, and I think the world perceived through sound must be much different from a dog to a human.
This goes for tastes and smells too, some are much greater in different species of animals - i.e. some animals have a much greater sense for taste and smell than human, but I still think its safe to say there are smells and tastes around us that we cannot perceive as well. Touch may apply too, but I cant think of a good example.
If you've read this far thanks for bearing with my ramblings. What I'm leading to is that couldn't it be quite probable that there is an entire range of beings that are completely undetectable to humans, or maybe only have very minor effects? All of our sciences are based on what we can detect or sense with our own bodies or our technology, but what if we simply don't have the capabilities to detect various existences of beings?
We look for life on other planets, and search for something similiar to ourselves - i.e. biologically based, living, breathing and eating, etc... But the universe is so expansive with infinite possibilities, who says that our small range of senses are even capable of sensing the type of life that may exist on another planet?
But this could be the case even on our own planet. I see it as, we live in an infinite universe, with infinite possiblities. Say the possibilities exist on a scale, measured by whatever, on a scale of 0 to infinity. As humans, we can sense or experience a small range, say those that fall within the range of 100 - 300, but there is so much opportunity for things, complete beigns, to exist all around us, perhaps in the same space of us, but just on a level that we cannot detect, and therefore we are not aware of.
I guess the assumption that what we can detect, and therefore be aware of with our limited human capabilities and technology, are the only things that really "exist" at all seems pretty closed-minded to me.
It started with my thoughts on physics and biology. The human eye can sense light that is within a certain range of wavelengths. For our eye, this range is relatively small (approx 400 - 700 nanometers I think). However, there is an infinite range of wavelengths of light, many of them around us all the time, but we cannot see it. Some wavelengths that we cannot see can still affect us (burn us or something), and some we cannot detect with our body at all but can with specialized equipment, and who knows what else is out there that we do not even have the technology to detect yet.
Similiar situation with sound. We can hear a certain range of frequencies or wavelengths, but there are many sound waves around us all the time that we cannot hear. A dog can hear a better range than humans, and I think the world perceived through sound must be much different from a dog to a human.
This goes for tastes and smells too, some are much greater in different species of animals - i.e. some animals have a much greater sense for taste and smell than human, but I still think its safe to say there are smells and tastes around us that we cannot perceive as well. Touch may apply too, but I cant think of a good example.
If you've read this far thanks for bearing with my ramblings. What I'm leading to is that couldn't it be quite probable that there is an entire range of beings that are completely undetectable to humans, or maybe only have very minor effects? All of our sciences are based on what we can detect or sense with our own bodies or our technology, but what if we simply don't have the capabilities to detect various existences of beings?
We look for life on other planets, and search for something similiar to ourselves - i.e. biologically based, living, breathing and eating, etc... But the universe is so expansive with infinite possibilities, who says that our small range of senses are even capable of sensing the type of life that may exist on another planet?
But this could be the case even on our own planet. I see it as, we live in an infinite universe, with infinite possiblities. Say the possibilities exist on a scale, measured by whatever, on a scale of 0 to infinity. As humans, we can sense or experience a small range, say those that fall within the range of 100 - 300, but there is so much opportunity for things, complete beigns, to exist all around us, perhaps in the same space of us, but just on a level that we cannot detect, and therefore we are not aware of.
I guess the assumption that what we can detect, and therefore be aware of with our limited human capabilities and technology, are the only things that really "exist" at all seems pretty closed-minded to me.