Beyond the Realm of Experience the Universe is inherently Mysterious...
Animal Nervous systems operate fundamentally in terms of adaptive pattern recognition rather than logic. They are finite structures with a finite resolution on reality and their experience. They cannot know an effectively infinite reality in it's totality, therefore they don't attempt to do so because it would be impossibly costly in terms of time and resources. Instead, animal nervous systems evolved a strategy of adaptive pattern recognition that allow for the environment to be cognitively modeled or "imagined" based upon the finite nature of it's experience. The nervous system is capable of constructing a seemingly infinite variety of cognitive approximations that are of greater or lesser degree of correspondence to the actual features of reality that they are experiencing. They are not primarily interested in those models with the closest correspondence to reality, but rather to those models meeting their primary adaptive needs at any particular point in time and space. Animal nervous systems are not logic devices, nor are they Truth-seeking devices. They are primarily engaged in adaptive pattern recognition, albeit with Humans, the degrees of creative freedom made available by language, and the constraints of logic, reason, and empiricism; can all be harnessed as techniques for fine tuning the correspondence between the cognitive construct and the outlines of existential reality. But there always remains a limit of validity for the cognitive model, beyond which paradox and contradiction will arise. At best we can expand the range of validity for our cognitive models by reexamining our existing models and modifying their underlying assumptions to be more consistent and coherent with the actual contours of the phenomena we seek to model.
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