You’ve questioned me on that visceral understanding thing,
It’s that point when all that random information coalesces into a coherent understandable story of the whole, well an aspect of the whole.
It’s like my perception of deep-time and the flow of Evolution a huge montage of different timescales and events and all the pieces fit like clock gears, and it feels like home. That’s what applying the fathomless information we’ve gather over the past century, half century, is all about.
What’s wonderful is how new information coming in, always seems to fit right in with its surrounding pieces that I may already be aware of it. I don’t need to presume to understand the whole, all of these pieces that I am aware of tells me plenty enough.
I am an element in the flow of Earth’s Evolution - it’s like what could get more simple or meaningful, (or eternal for that matter) than that? As a bonus, I’m constantly learning new marvels about that physical reality.
I’ll make a point of listening when I can get the quiet time.