I was taken by the documentary on PBS’ presentation of Nova: The Black Hole. What I see is beyond thinking or perceiving. It is the limit of human knowing for one, and perhaps the limit of understanding as well. One has to be a respectable skeptic because the concept itself will swallow you up.
I am speculating that it is something as distant from our knowing as the stars were from Tarzan 10,000 years ago—simply beyond our current cognitive capacity. Not to say we won’t come to more cognition in the future, we may come to a new paradigm of understanding. In the sense of this being the new frontier of knowing, it also reflects on the evolution of thinking as we stand in its limited fragments for now, as its image matures.
It is a good example of something that exists before our knowing can catch up to the understanding of it.
I wanted to speculate on another thought that rises simultaneously: How is it that humans, as a biological organism, can perceive and know? What does knowing have to do with living life? I can see how learning leads to facilitating the support of spin and character beyond eating each other, but I can’t understand what it means for the existence of life’s purpose?
Life could be restrained to just the physical dialogue, but who exists that can share it? How does a who exist?” What is the relationship of living and the black hole? It could be the basis of existing, so as to fill its death with an enrichment of meaning.
This brings to the image of relationship the purpose of living, the idea that living is to carry knowledge into the blackhole. Life is, in part, for learning experience, so as to enable the spirit of matter to grow in death. Death becomes the place where the deposits of life are collected, stored, and integrated. What goes on after the black hole? The idea of the white light could be the completion of the circle of both.
This is a bit spooky, but one must remember, we are living beings in the reflection of what has come before and that it contains the gene of the Life-Spirit to pull our existence into meaning. Perhaps the meaning of being is to experience getting vacuumed up into “the final black hole” surrounding our existing.
Another part of the mystery that lies far beyond our cognition is what happens after all the black holes collapse into one? Perhaps join is a better image. I would think that this would be something where all was integrated into one and made ready for yet another journey of expansion and collapse in an implosion, as a kind of reincarnation of a new universe based on past experience with a new hereditary life seed.
Our part is in the learning and integration of our own lives.