If there are no sighted men, how could the blind men in the fable know that they were in fact sensing pieces of a unified reality, the elephant? I suspect this is the main interesting problem in ontology now. It is not in fact self-evident that the universe is a unified reality.
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I'm accidentally being dismissive by being tangential, apologies. I agree with your premise... the quest to unify, to take disparate information and seek to make it one --that seems much like a spiritual urge, but I think even in this metaphor the cognition of the elephant...
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No the tangent is an important one and in fact I provoked it by calling out religion as the most obvious unifying unfalsifiable construct. The one underlying science is just a lot subtler.
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