Filosofy while I recover

Had surgery today.. so the brain works differently now.. this came out:

I want to show you something: a repeatable miracle. Please try this at home.

Take exactly one liter of cold water — straight from the fridge, about five degrees.
Take exactly one liter of hot water — fresh from the kettle, steaming at ninety-five.
Now pour them together. Hoe much do you end up with. Think about it. Think deeper..

You expect two liters. Why wouldn’t you?
One plus one is two. It always is. Isn’t it?
The temperatures even out.. water is less dense when hot, but then again it is denser when it is cold. So the densities even out, right?

You just combined one liter of water with another liter of water —
so of course, it should be two liters of water.

But now, the miracle...

Measure carefully, and you’ll find the world disagrees.
The combined volume doesn’t reach two liters.
It falls short — by nearly fifteen milliliters.
Not spilled. Not evaporated. Not lost.
Just… not there.

Where did it go?

Nowhere mysterious, really.
Molecules rearranged. Densities shifted.
Heat reshaped the space between atoms.
The world settled into a new equilibrium.

The miracle isn’t physical. It’s psychological.
Because the miracle is not that matter behaves this way —
but that we don’t see the world this way.
We live inside a model that says 1 + 1 = 2,
and so when it doesn't, we blame ourselves.
We assume we spilled something. Misread the line.
We never question the model.

But 1 + 1 = 2 is not a law.
It’s a story.
A convenient fiction for tidy things in tidy states.
We count things and assume the count defines the thing.

And so we build our lives around predictions —
expecting the world to conform to our math.
When it doesn’t, we edit reality rather than the model.

But the world isn’t made of numbers.
It bends. It flows. It responds to context.
It listens to circumstance.

So when we add things up — volumes, people, beliefs —
our most basic logic might fail us.
Two is only two when nothing changes.
But in the living world, something always changes.

Science is reductive.
It only functions if the world stays the same long enough to measure it.
But even in a lab, that sameness is never truly real —
only close enough for confidence intervals.

In ordinary life, the difference is always there.
Always significant.
Always flowing.

And this… this is why I say:
The world you see isn’t real.
It’s a model.
One that works — until it doesn’t.Læs mere