I adore knowledge too and seek it everywhere, it's in my nature. But I regard all knowledge as grains of sand on an infinite beach that can never reveal to us the whole picture. Like the zen proverb goes: possessing much knowledge is like having a 1000 foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook.
But I ponder loadsa stuff. I ponder whether everything we see really exists or are mental illusions. I ponder whether we live in a multiverse. I ponder what portion of reality our senses can detect, I ponder what might be going on in that undetectable portion. Whether the past, present and future all happen at once - as Einstein believed. I ponder whether, as Rez alluded to, we can ever really know ourselves, whether we have free will or whether we're nowt but organic machines playing out our evolutionary programming. I ponder too much to be honest. But it's fun as it broadens our sense of what things might be. The danger is in reaching any concrete conclusions.
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