Day 213: Thoughts on Measurement

I want to imagine a world without measurements. No clocks, no rulers, and no ages. There will be nothing to set apart days or people. We will all just be.

Measurement is part of our trap. A comparison. A judgment. Measurements create labels that separate the world by drawing invisible lines on the earth.

Yet, our sophistication and precision have brought about unbelievable feats of technology and construction. The ability for the human population to soar exponentially. Measurement has given us an enormous upper-hand against all the other creatures of this planet. There is more life, but there is far more death.

If there were no clocks, no tomorrow or yesterday, no five-year plan — there would only be now. A line at a singularity is only a point. We are a continuous stream of points, observing ourselves observe all the other points.

Infinite numbers like Pi help me realize that no measurement will be perfect and all measurements are an approximation, relative to the tool and the observer. I wanted to imagine a world without measurement, but I forgot that we are already here. All measurements are an interpreted observation, holding no truth but only a collective agreement.

There is no need to measure all the other dots on the line if this dot is content.

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