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As a person walking away from us gradually escapes our senses, a person slipping into dementia gradually escapes the ability of our social apparatus to comprehe
by nimonian 7y ago
As a person walking away from us gradually escapes our senses, a person slipping into dementia gradually escapes the ability of our social apparatus to comprehend them as a person. To the observer, they both disappear, but they continue to exist outside of our ability to perceive them. It's this aspect of the unknowable that gives me a sense of dread and wonder about so many things: physics, psychology, death. A kind of epistemic thalassophobia. How much truth escapes our ability to witness or measure it? How different would the world be if our senses, instruments and minds were better adapted?
- lmilcin 7y agoWe are not comfortable behaving normally around people with physical disabilities and it takes much more courage and patience to deal with people with mental disorders. Our senses, instruments and minds are well adapted. It is just we lack experience to deal with the problem same way you can't feel relaxed the first time you talk to large audience but in time most people can do just that. As children we are sheltered from people with disabilities and later in life most of us are not exposed and are not seeking exposure.