We don't know what we don't know.

Philosophy musings time! Last night I lay in bed, thinking those strange thoughts that seem to float into one's mind whenever alone with one's thoughts. This often happens to me, I seem to get a lot of time when trying to get to sleep to think of a lot of strange things. My thought process last night begin to go down the route of life, as is a common theme for me to think about, and about how we don't know what we don't know, but we do know that we don't know it. So does that make what we don't know, existent at all?

Following from that, I began to think my typical thought that the world is not how it seems, at all. I think, due to the fact there are many things we don't know that we don't know, the world is full of mysteries. And we reduce ourselves to perceiving things from our own knowledge and comparing things to our own experiences and previous knowledge. I think that limits us to what we can know at the time, until we discover something else. As humans we always understand things from our own perspective - but what if, really, other species understand things differently? There may be knowledge we have to suggest that they don't understand concepts we understand, and from our own perspective we're the most intelligent - because we know what we know. But I maintain that there are things animals know we either do not, or have forgotten in favour of other knowledge.

Aside from this, I still don't think that physics explains the world fully. There are, of course, reports of phenomena that science really can't explain. I think these reports are far too widespread and common amongst humanity for us to be able to dismiss them as 'human error'. Many times these reports can be brushed off as such, but there are many instances of humans reporting the same thing - now that isn't just coincidence to me. As far as science is aware, if it can't be measured or proven, it doesn't exist, it's just a product of belief. I personally don't think science is as all-powerful as to be able to measure every single phenomena there is. I think there are things beyond physics, things which are perhaps on a different 'plane', things which can defy the physics we know and understand.

To me, there is much more to the world around us than the things we can see, touch, sense with our brains and measure with science. I often think people assume we are in some great age of beginning to breach the edges of physics to the point we can only go forward from here manipulating physics to our own ends and creations. But that's where I think humanity is wrong. I believe we are only scratching the surface - there is much more out there to discover, things perhaps we will never be able to sense, measure or feel. For me there's something bigger around us, invisible. Waiting or not - perhaps it is ignorant to our existence, perhaps it simply doesn't care. If it's bigger than us, perhaps we are insignificant to it as much as at the moment, it is insignificant to us.