In a country of the blind, where everyone is blind and no one has ever seen light, light is beyond the scope of sensory understanding for the people in this country. But they grew plants and found that plants can grow well outdoors, but indoor plants will wither. (The rooms in the country of the blind have doors but no windows, because they are not needed.) Of course, we know that plants need photosynthesis, and plants will wither without light. But the blind people feel strange, why can plants grow outdoors but not indoors? In order to keep warm, some blind people lit fires indoors. Fires naturally produce light, so plants can grow indoors where there is a fire. Blind people believed that the heat of the fire determines whether the plants will grow and not wither. But this mistake was soon discovered, because if the fire is placed in a closed and light-proof stove, the plants around the stove will also wither. Scientists from the Country of the Blind conducted a large number of experiments on this, and finally believed that there is a kind of energy that is necessary for plant growth, but this energy is not directly related to heat energy. This kind of energy is not perceptible by humans, but it does exist. Later, everyone gave this energy a name called light... Later, there was a guy named Edison in the country of the blind. Of course, he was also blind. After countless experiments, he finally invented a transmitter that can produce that kind of light energy when powered on. Plants can grow under the action of this transmitter, so that flowers can be grown indoors... Can blind people recognize light? Is it true and complete understanding of light? Does this kind of understanding count as a substantial understanding of light? Blind people can recognize light, just like we can recognize invisible electromagnetic waves and magnetic fields. And do we people with eyes really know "light"? Blind people can reach the same level as us. It's just that the progress will be much slower than that of people with eyes. This is philosophy and science. Blind people can understand light rationally, but because they have no eyes, it is difficult to understand light perceptually. It's not impossible, it's just difficult. This is also a question of indirect knowledge and direct knowledge. What is cognition? You need to know what it is, how it is produced, and what effect it has. If you only study whether it is a problem, blind people can also recognize light.
Your mistake is not due to the failure to solve the problem of understanding, but the wrong way of understanding, or whether these problems do not exist at all, exploring the relationship between our understanding and the world...
Do people with eyes know light? Your perceptual understanding is not direct either. The human eyeball is a spherical crystal. According to the lens principle, the scene is projected onto the retina as an upside-down image. But the brain handles this problem on its own. The left brain controls the right hand and the right brain controls the left hand. This problem is solved. But after all, the world in our eyes is upside down and has undergone multiple refraction and various processing. We still cannot see the essence of the world. There are many such examples. Can we understand light through sensory perception? Or use reason? Rational understanding is further away from reality. There is logic and language between you and the world. This is a wall, and this wall is called thinking. If you want to see the real light, you have to turn into a light. If you want to see the real world, you have to see the light with the eyes of light, see the sky with the eyes of the sky, see the clouds with the eyes of clouds, see the wind with the eyes of the wind, see the flowers and trees with the eyes of flowers and trees, see the stones with the eyes of stones, see the sea with the eyes of the sea... It is not just this, the important thing is not to see the world with "I". If you look at it with self-awareness, according to the modern poems I posted before, what you see is actually yourself, right? "You can't see your truth, what you see is your shadow."
Qian, have you ever thought about it? What we really need to do is not to give up everything, nor to look at it with a "detached" attitude. That is not detachment, that is indifference. As the saying goes: it is inhumane. That state is nothing. At most, it is just arrogant, which is far from me. If one day you see me crazy, you are actually crazy.
