Before The Pump Was Invented, What Did The Heart Do?
We believe we know the truth because science says the heart is a pump, but that’s ridiculous.
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The purpose of this question is to make us see that our ability to understand the world is limited to what we know; but what we know is the cognitive product of what we experience — thought being encompassed within what is experienced — and experience is the result of interpreting what happens in our lives based on what we already know.
Which is to say, everything we directly perceive, feel, and think, is passed through the filter of our already conceived knowledge of, and understanding of, the world and ourselves. So we are limited in our attempts to understand something new, owing to the need to not just meet this new knowledge with an open mind, but also the need to understand how it fits together with everything else. But sometimes new knowledge does not and will not fit in.