The Threshold of Ignorance

mind.

 Philosophers throughout the ages, endeavouring to give sense for things, their existence, their nature, their origin and finalities, did not, so far, uncover any solid reality for anything. They simply had to make a choice, reaching a dead end where the wall of ignorance imposes itself on their minds. Every and each one of the known philosophers and thinkers from Buddha to Confucianism, to Protegra, Aristotle and Plato, to St. Paul and St. Augustine, to Laplace, Leibniz and Descartes, to Nietzsche Kant, Hegel, to Heidegger, Sartre and Russell, all had to make a choice between belief and disbelief in an external finality, a God-cause.

Limits for thinking?

Few scientists, neurologists and philosophers, attempt to explore what thinking is. What are ideas? Where do they come from? What are their processes? What constitute ideas? How are they formed and how are they communicated among people? Why should they incite consciousness in our minds? What are the rules governing there presence, relations and processes? Are they inborn or acquired? And for what purpose do ideas exist? Are ideas limited only to our being?

 The reality of an object and our perception of it:

Mathematics, as a perfect science that symbolises the how but does not explain the why, is considered, by some scientists, to have an ‘external reality’ and is limited only to reason. Meanwhile; both terms ‘external’ and ‘reality’ remain to be defined, or at least identified superficially. It is an intelligible abstract conceptualisation of what is perceived as sensible and ultimately its intelligible, representation. The sensible is removed from what it is to the domain or representation. It is displaced

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