/lit/ - Literature

>>14678561
Not the Heidigger guy.
I understand what you're asking, but I just don't know how to explain it to you. The question "how does understanding the world translate into understanding the self" is utterly baffling to me. A science channel on youtube, Veritasium, described it as such. When you release a ball from your hand, you not only intellectually know that it's going to drop, your body knows as well. You know it not only with your brain, but your spleen. The know the world, know yourself is spleen-knowledge to me.
Any attempt I have made to try to explain it under a rational (or non-mystical) framework, I have to backtrack and be wholly unsatisfied.
In some sense, it is a bit like how Plato commented that to not know the strength and althethicism of your body is a terrible crime. You could think of science as powerlifing for your curiosity.
You could think of this as an attempt to learn more about God (in the Spinzosist vein). If you are an atheist, think CRISPR, Nietzschean ubermenches and humans being a fever dream of a machine.
It is part creating models for your own personal use. Did you know Goethe created a theory of color which, while completely at odds with the current models of light in the physics-sense, is still used in some areas due to it being based not on mathematical models of electrons, but human experience of color. This is very illustrative, one could deduce the metaphorical ocean from a raindrop from this paragraph in regards to what I'm trying to say.
It could be the pure joy of nature, and in trying to understand it we are partaking in something radically human, a oneness with the system. I go on walks with my little seven year old sister where we just look at mushrooms and their properties. We look at spore patterns and color, and we try to explain the adaptions to the best of our understanding. There is great joy to be found there.
I could go on, but I'm out of space.
>>14678570
you are illiterate.