As I have stated, it is not so much in large matters of import that we question ourselves, but in small matters. The more minute the stretch of time within which something occurs, the more difficult it is to be precise. I can say with some certainty what I did a few days ago, especially if not asked for or offered a specific date, yet when asked to account for the content of single second, I would be lost, for in that single second there are more Planck-seconds than there have been seconds in the entire history of the Universe. Only meticulous self-study in the process of the mind -- how it forms Truths, how it sheds Truths, the impetus for its reluctance to change despite the inevitability* of this change -- can produce the facts of Uncertainty; Common sense and pragmatism depend upon a leap of faith in spite of Uncertainty: An Absurd Protest.
* A parallel may be drawn between this dichtomy of Old-Mind-to-New-Mind and Camus' notion of a dynamic opposition between Rational Human and Irrational Universe.
dm.A.A.
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