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Yes, I have similar thoughts. Getting older, traveling more, seeing the hustle and bustle of large cities, becoming more aware of all these details that many people don't think about, etc...has all greatly expanded my world view. One of the big thoughts that these kinds of realizations have left me with is how vanishingly small each human's view is compared to the total scope of the universe. None of us is able to escape the confines of our skin and our personal perspective. However, we all tend to extrapolate this vanishingly small slice of ours to the whole universe. Problem is, it's very difficult to figure when that extrapolation is valid and when it is over-fitting, which is probably the root of a lot of human conflict.


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