(Being a Semi-Well Thought Out Response to Unspeakable
Things.)
SO, the ineffable
cannot be described or conveyed subjectively. NOR can it be quantified objectively. It can only be hinted at,
or semi-described with a series of inadequate phrases (or entire belief
systems) expressed verbally as vague, nevertheless, grandiose ideas or philosophies. (Like the Japanese idea of bushido, which is drawn directly
from Taoism/Daoism as
in ‘bu-shi-do = wu-shi-tao’.)
The ineffable is the
closest we human beings will come to experiencing quantum phenomenon in our day-to-day existence, experiences
that transcend our mental-physical ability to fully understand, and that can
only be fully engaged within the confines of pure human thought-concepts (or
conjectural ideations or belief
systems) with no easily accessible parallel in our physical world.
A quantum phenomenon
(of this uniquely human nature) can
perhaps best be describe as a concept, experience, or idea that never escapes
the ‘black hole’ of pure thought, because it has no parallel in the real or
physical universe, e.g., like the
color red and the idea of the color
red.
One (the idea of red) fills in universally for what we have all agreed
the color red must be. (Interesting paradox: Could it be that colorblind
people, on some subconscious physiological level, have not agreed that the color red is actually red, hence, their inability to see what the rest of us
see?)
Some concepts fall into
a category that have no parallel or representative in the collective human
experience (meaning ones on which we can all agree universally), so they are ineffable, and, on some level, intensely
personal (like religious experiences or epiphanies).
Attempting to describe
these indescribable aspects of their nature verbally, such as ‘position’ (or where/how
they exist) and ‘momentum’ (how these experiences apparently move through our
lives and are felt) could be seen as being directly at odds with (a variation of?)
the Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principle.
This principle states
that it is impossible to measure the position and momentum of anything (usually
sub-atomic particles, but technically any
body of mass) simultaneously with any degree of acceptable accuracy for either.
If so, then we, or some
part of us, exists at the quantum level of
some vast other part of our known universe OR dimension.
We (or some part of our minds) are quantum phenomena.
