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Meh! Nothing deeply philosophical about this except to basically warn us that our mental habit of trying to "*join the dots*" for the sake of a complete narrative about reality doesn't always agree with the science where "*We know all theories are incomplete; for instance, general relativity doesn’t include quantum mechanics*". Basically after all the scientific discussion about quantum mechanics, etc, we are warned not to jump to any conclusions that science itself has not made.
"*We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.*" ~ Niels Bohr[1].
1: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr
I understand this can be tangential but here is a statement I had to make in r/Buddhism against someone that was confusing nirvana with reality = LINK[2]. And here is a statement I had to make in r/DeepThoughts against someone that wanted claim we had a shared universal consciousness = LINK[3].
We humans jump to all sorts of conclusions for the sake of a complete narrative about reality, or more specifically, our perception of what reality is or should be. This I understand as more a psychological issue to find some "*ultimate plan*" to help us deal with any cognitive dissonance[4] that we may experience from witnessing all the suffering (and/or "*evil*") in the world and our own mortality.
4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxAu7BTZQRY
Thinking deep can cause a mind to be too myopic. Thinking wide can cause a mind to be too unfocused. However one needs to think both deep *and* wide to have a complete understanding which includes knowing the practicable limits to knowledge.
There's nothing here!