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Truth is a slippery thing.
Throughout human history, philosophers, scientists and holy men have tried to find it, yet it still feels like we’re only scratching the surface. There’s this sense that the answers to the deepest questions are hidden somewhere beyond our reach. That attempting to answer them is futile, or perhaps even arrogant.
There’s good reason to think this way, we’re not particularly well equipped to understand the universe after all. Our limited perspectives and even more limited minds, mean we can’t even confidently answer questions about ourselves. Where we came from, what we’re doing here, where we go afterwards, how far can we get if we can’t even tackle these questions with any certainty?
To solve this problem, we’ve set about accumulating information. The 21st Century is the Age of Information. Our children have access to more information than entire nations did only a few hundred years ago. A Google search can turn up thousands of articles in favour of any position imaginable in a few milliseconds. And you can find thousands which say the opposite in just a few more. This is the problem with information as opposed to truth; information can contradict itself.
Faced with all of these overlapping or contradictory “facts”, it begins to feel as if truth itself is an illusion, and this…
