Episode 6.18: Actively and passively making sense of the world; living with multiplicity.

We reduce the world to one definite thing in order to reduce our anxieties about uncertain things. While the world appears to be in a state of flux and multiplicity we don’t know how to anticipate the future so we are tempted all the time perhaps and often prematurely to reduce the state of the world with all its multiplicities into a single state because it seems more manageable and seems more comfortable even if it turns out to be mistaken.