We live in a vast universe that spans enormous scapes in time and space. But humans have only evolved to understand information in quantities that they can easily relate to — human scaled. We can conceive landscapes mostly in chunks we can easily walk and connected loosely by strands of distances we can drive comfortably. We live in the now, but relate to the future in terms of the past that we don’t remember well. We can make plans just within a very narrow scope of time — days, perhaps week. The future is always elusive and vague. And we are really just able to maintain a web of a few dozen relationships. Time, space, and human interactions are super limited for us. We don’t process and thus truly comprehend information of large or very small scales. It’s not who we are. This is why it is easy for us to fall for logic traps that equate our family organization with country-wide system of laws, for example. And it’s one of the reasons we need lawyers and scientists, people who are trained to think non-colloquially about the world — we are not nimble at figuring out all of the restrictions…
