{"id":3745,"date":"2024-12-18T09:13:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T17:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2024-12-18T09:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T17:13:42","slug":"say-it-aint-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/say-it-aint-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Say It Ain\u2019t So!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\"><em>It ain\u2019t so much the things we don\u2019t know that get us into trouble. It\u2019s the things we know that ain\u2019t so<\/em> \u2014 Artemus Ward (1834 \u2013 1867)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\">Take for instance, that grass is green, or that rocks are hard. We know they are. Except we don\u2019t because they only look and feel that way to us because we have evolved to perceive them as green or hard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\">If we stare at the ground a different way, and begin to see it rise and fall, as if it were pulsating or breathing, we would doubt our own perception \u2013<em> that cannot be<\/em>, we would say, <em>it defies common sense! <\/em>However, if we didn\u2019t doubt, but began to <a href=\"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/videos\/ritual\/\">ritual<\/a> with it, it might turn into something useful. After a few generations of using the pulsating ground swell, and teaching our children how to use it, it might appear to be part of the natural landscape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps we could surf over it, and get to our destinations effortlessly (and gasoline free!). Sure, it started as a misperception. But we played with it, ritualed with it, and the landscape began to mirror it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\">The physicists would argue that we are under an illusion about the greenness of grass, or the hardness of rocks, just as we are under an illusion about the pulsating ground or the existence of god. They <em>know<\/em> these things <em>ain\u2019t so<\/em>, but that is where they are getting into trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It ain\u2019t so much the things we don\u2019t know that get us into trouble. It\u2019s the things we know that ain\u2019t so \u2014 Artemus Ward (1834 \u2013 1867) Take for instance, that grass is green, or that rocks are hard. We know they are. Except we don\u2019t because they only<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/say-it-aint-so\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-qualiens","post-3745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9QShd-Yp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3820,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}