Divisions

I've already written here that categories don't exist
outside of our minds. The reality that we perceive with our
senses isn't divided: we, consciously or not, divide this
perception into small parts in order to help us evolve in
it, then we believe we recognize those parts, for example
in the raw image of reality that our eyeballs perceive,
which solidifies the belief that those divisions really
do exist in the first place.

Looking at a tree, we think that it obviously represents a
tree, but all we see is variable intensities of color. It
may sound dumb, be we didn't recognize "a tree", we felt
from our senses a stimulus that made us think of a tree.

It does make perfect sense to divide our environement. It's
what allowed any animal to survive up to this point by
creating a division between danger and food. Humans are
the one specie on Earth that probably pushed this natural
ability the furthest by collectively creating billions of
categories that go way beyond recognizing things in their
ordinary lives. But yet again, these are creations, that
do help make sense of reality, but that don't actually
exist in it. We believe the concept exists, but any and
all links that connect it in some way to reality are also
beliefs. Moreover, we believe the concept is a single,
independant entity, but often forget it has been carved
out of our immediate sensory perceptions, or stems from
other concepts which were. And nothing in our immediate
perceptions can actually confirm that yes, those divisions
are real.

Could "reality" actually be already divided into smaller
parts? It very well may be! But this knowledge is
unattainable as the only methods we possess to be aware
of the world, our senses, cannot see those hypothetical
divisions. Using other instruments to try and prove their
existence is already a flawed approach because, as with our
senses, they aren't what they see, sense, or detect. Not
being what you study means you can only observe, not know.

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