Meanwhile, the forest is made up of clearly implied intentions. The forest is described by the shapes of the leaves."

Nerd: "I'm sorry, you'll have to elucidate. You seem to understand the practicality of scientific methods yet you still disagree with the approach?"

Kent: "Physicists will tell you that just by observing some phenomena they affect the outcome of their experiment. I say it starts long before then with the math. And further along when you try to observe particle phenomena the tools you choose to use determine what you will see. After all a tool set can only give information within its specified parameters. And we've built those tools with our mathematic expectations. Forgetting the possibility we may be wrong in our assumptions.

Yes we do affect things with our observance. If Susie becomes coy only when I look at her it’s because we already had a prearranged capability for a relationship. That alone should suggest to you that our approach to addressing the microcosm is not accurate or meaningful.

Our perceptions are very adaptive to our expectations. We see what we understand and the fuzziness gets overlooked. - It’s a particle, it’s a wave; in this the fuzziness is between the wave and the particle. So we shy away from that puzzle because we have no sure way to address it. The phenomenon is simply more or other than what our minds are able to understand as yet.

Meanwhile the universe remains as complex and constant as it has always been. All the phenomena that we cannot understand have been, and continue to be, occurring infinitely as before. And we are only able to observe the bits that our present awareness expects."

Montahue: "Isn't there a meaning here? If what we expect to see occurs doesn't that mean we can, at least, affect the phenomenon?"

Kent: “Our universe is quite a malleable place, and very generous about it too. So, yes, we can affect certain situations because we don’t have to fully understand a phenomenon before we are capable of putting it to our use, gravity, electricity, and atomic power for examples. But it seems to me that discovering the nature of magnetism has blinded us in our search for a greater understanding of our universe. - As if electrons playing grab-ass between atoms explains everything about the universe. - Our ability to use these phenomena has reinforced the direction of our approach: divide, separate and isolate to study. In reaction to this and as a result we found ourselves having to plug in one of a set of numbers into our mathematical framework. These numbers have no meaning other than the fact that they make our equations figure through correctly enough for our practical use.

"The lesson here is that you can't perceive what your mind can't grasp. What you do experience is some kind of quirk with the expected results or fuzziness. I mean really, one more electron and gold turns to platinum? How can you possibly explain all the differences between gold and platinum by saying that alone? This enigma is noticed but it will not be resolved with our present expectations.

"Problems of this nature imply that awareness leads to perception: we are aware of a problem so we work to understand it. And when we understand it, poof, “Look now I see what’s going on!” - Western civilizations’ less informed once looked to a horizon

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