Kant said an irrevocable limit to our knowing is in place, because our thoughts can never penetrate the luminous barrier. But others, less famed, attribute the expansion of knowing not to enhancing our thoughts but to cultivating new sense organs. And they say so not out of theory, but experience…

you want to know how many universes exist?
begin counting the portals that sense organs define
but don’t just limit your surveying to bodies
dogs who are poets
   would tell of worlds within odors
while beings you cannot dream up
   know of gods who sing the cosmos

_______RS

Image : snippet from an artist’s conception of an encounter between two black holes.

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