Minds of infinite scale

Our minds have admittedly gotten us quite far. They have taken us to the ends of the Earth, across the oceans, and into the stars. They have engineered societies, language, computers, microscopes, and telescopes. With each new instrument our perspective in increased, but we have come to the limits of our capabilities. The unknown is the sea of limitations which we cannot presently cross. We cannot cross it because we, as humans, are incapable of crossing it. We can observe that it is there, but cannot perceive its contents. Our brains are evolved proportionally to the world we inhabit. Until recently that world has been primarily within the grasp of our faculties. But now we come upon the worlds both large and small that we are not equipped to know. Comparisons cannot be drawn because the worlds are so vastly different. We have scraped the limits of our very imaginations. We can perceive no further. We will sputter and suppose and speculate and get no closer until our minds evolve to deal with these unimaginable worlds that inhabit the same plane as our very own existence. The world of atoms and of waves, of forces and chemicals, of stars, galaxies, dark matter and time. Of infinite space and scale and of the voids in between.

Eventually our evolved consciousness will fail to comprehend these too. We will find new frontiers of understanding that we must await our capacity to understand them catch up with our desire.

Can we bring on the next stage of evolution by pushing our minds to their limits? Will we adapt the skills needed to perceive the very small and the very large? Can we achieve any victory at all over our very limitations? Or will it simply happen? Someone some day will suddenly be able to intuit protons, or see radio waves, or feel dark matter. Or they wont. It never need happen. It cannot be told if we will evolve beyond the realm of survival and into the realm of pure understanding. Nor can it be supposed down which path our capacities will take us. We will have to be the guinea pigs for a species aware of its own evolution. We will have to be conscious of different adaptations within our selves. If all other flora and fauna are adapted to their environments, why not us? Why not be adapted for understanding? Or for War? Or for cooking? It may already be the case, we may just be ill equipped to see it at this point.