You Don't Know What You're Missing

I subscribe to the Platonic and Kantian idea that there is noumena apart from the phenomena that we're capable of sensing -- or even intellectualizing.

All our thoughts are linearly encapsulated by virtue of our existence as three- or four-dimensional beings. Even by virtue of imagination, thought-experiments, and avant-gard actualizations, there is no way to escape the linearity of thought. A constant rethinking of our own thoughts is the only way we can go about trying to escape this linearity; the use of objective mathematics is another, but even in the realm of mathematics, it is impossible to go beyond what logic tells us. And our logic is fundamentally anthropomorphic.

Hence, until (1) we can perceive other dimensions as easily as we can perceive the existing set, and (2) until a form of meta-logic is developed that explains certain things that are impossible to understand under current logical constructs (something as fundamental, for example, as the impossibility of defining x divided by zero, where x is any real number), then we can have no hope of believing that we know all there is to know about the universe.

We might have a hope of knowing all we can perceive about our universe, but not of the universe in the largest possible objective sense.

Indeed, the very process of thought, shapes that which is thought about.