We do not have updated knowledge and we continue in a belief system that is no longer valid.
Where do we stay?
It was valid according to the scientific paradigm of the early 20th century, but today it is obsolete.
And what does that not know cause?
It makes it difficult to incorporate the behavioral changes necessary to get out of the delicate moment we are in. The three realities in which we live, the physical, the individual and the social, are much more complex than we believed.
What has changed?
The definition of what is reality. We believed that physical reality was known and tangible, but it is unknown and intangible.
That's disturbing.
Physical reality is what we can see and touch, but today we know that all matter is 99.9999999% vacuum, electromagnetic fields and energy.
Does this table have more void than matter?
Yes. And we do not know 96% of physical reality, we do not know anything about black holes, antimatter, dark matter and dark energy. Of the 4% that we know, the matter, we do not know its origin.
Knowing the universe is currently beyond our capabilities.
The universe measures 95 billion light years and is expanding. The longest manned trip humanity has ever made was to the Moon, which is two light seconds away.
I understand.
And our senses do not allow us to know the world, they give us very partial information and are specific for each species. You and I are sitting here with a feeling of stillness, but we are moving at 107,280 km per hour, 314 times faster than a Formula 1 on the stadium straight.
Let's update social reality.
We believed, and many continue to believe, that social reality is true and objective, but it is arbitrary and manipulable.
Argumentemelo.
Each society constructs an array of values and norms that are useful to it, some govern here and others in another part of the planet, each with their own way of understanding truth, justice and coexistence, something that they instill in us. Knowing this makes you tolerant and open.
How has physical reality changed?
We have defended for many centuries that human beings are rational and conscious, but now we know that we are emotional, relational and not conscious. Our brain works 95% of its time unconsciously.
Do I think or collect other people's ideas?
Not even Aristotle, Plato, Nietzsche or Kant had their own thoughts. We collect thoughts from others and from there we enrich it.
So, is the correct paradigm “I only know that I know nothing”?
The answer that science can give to most of the big questions is “I don't know.” If you delve into not knowing, you discover that the greatness of the human being is not his thoughts.
Which is it?
Our most challenging role is to experience life in harmony, the rest is beyond us. The problem is that we hold uncertainty poorly, we want security and truths, when in science all truths are provisional.
They help us get by.
When we embrace “I don't know”, we tend to be more tolerant and open to empathy and feeling, because we already know that our thinking is a loop full of deficiencies.
The first fake in our history?
The I. All the unconscious information that we receive in our mother's womb and up to the age of three is the basis of our personality, otherwise we are a social construction.
We make decisions constantly.
But we do not reason them, it is a fantasy of the rational human, as it is to believe that our nature is competitive. The evolutionary success of all organic life is based on collaboration. Understanding it means realizing how we relate to our environment; we have to change that.
I don't know what we are anymore.
We are 99.9999999% empty, energy and electromagnetic fields, that is the matter of our body, we are universe, but we see ourselves as a drop and not as an ocean. If we behave like a drop we do not generate humanity but rather individuality.
Okay, “I don't know,” now what?
Well, opening up to not knowing, when I observe something I am not in judgment knowing that my thinking is irrational, I am fully in what is happening. Opening up to not knowing means returning to humility and wonder at life. It means stopping looking for myself outside and in my thoughts, and looking for myself in what I am, in my relationship with myself and with the world.
