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The Mystery of Everything We Don’t Know: Exploring the Limits of Human Understanding

Muhammad Kashif
7 min readOct 5, 2024

As human beings, we often think we know so much about the world around us. We have systems, names, and labels for everything we encounter — from colors to stars, from emotions to molecules. But how much of it do we truly understand? Beneath the surface of human knowledge lies a vast ocean of uncertainty and questions without answers. As much as we’ve discovered, there’s still so much we don’t know. Let’s delve deeper into the endless mysteries that challenge our understanding of the universe and ourselves.

The Perception Puzzle: Is Your Blue My Blue?

It starts with something as simple as color. We all know what “blue” looks like, or at least we think we do. But how can you be sure that what you see as blue is the same thing someone else sees? You may call it blue, but maybe what you see is what someone else calls red. This perplexing question of perception has baffled scientists and philosophers for centuries. A famous experiment in 2015 showed us how divided our perception can be: The Dress.

Was it gold and white or blue and black? Millions saw one, millions saw the other, and there was no definitive way to say whose perception was correct. This wasn’t the only time collective perception was tested. A few years later, the…

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Muhammad Kashif
Muhammad Kashif

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