Blake's Question

Our five senses evolved as coping mechanisms in the struggle of organic life to survive in its earthly environment. Science, art, philosophy, religion, and mathematics evolved to compensate for perceived limits to sensual perception. In other words, the human being has the capacity to perceive her own perceptivity.

This second-order capacity invites questions that admit of no easy answers. It is evolutionarily advantageous insofar as it allows us to second-guess sense data; it is proof of the complex nature of the human species. It does not answer Blake's question about the limitations of our knowledge, nor does it eliminate that question.

We are left, once again, to ponder...