Chemistry lecture lately has been covering the structure of the atom, and with it a ton of detail about electrons and their orbitals. Much more detail than in high school. And electrons being particle-waves makes them self-contradictory to the point of meaningless abstraction. They are particles with mass, things with a constant identity that doesn't get absorbed into anything else when they are transferred. Yet they are also three-dimensional waves, with undefined, probabilistic volume and routine overlap. So really, electrons are complex probability functions with mass.
It makes the whole world seem like special effects. Special effects in movies are images created out of nothing - made up by technological manipulation without the thing they represent even needing to exist. But what is our entire existence? Particle-waves! We perceive matter as having a fixed location, and color, and so on. But really, it's particle-waves of energy interacting with particle-waves of matter, bouncing off and interacting with more particle-waves that finally go back into the brain and give us an impression of "reality." None of it really differentiated. The order we perceive in the world is not really there, except in a mathematical, probabilistic sense. And in order to keep hold of THAT having real existence, you have to imagine math without numbers, because numbers are just artificial constructions. It's possible, hence the existence of the universe - but totally different from what we pick up with our five senses.
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So our brains are just giant probability deciphering units, and when everyone thinks something is green when it is clearly BLUE, that is just displaying the slight difference in calibration of my probability computer vs theirs.
And you can see why babies act so funny- they have yet to learn how to fine tune the solutions to their reality set, and to disregard most of the possibilities that they perceive.
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