“[Author Alan Watts] explains why he thinks we have thus far failed to comprehend the world and our interference with it. In part, we’ve failed because our ‘one-track’ minds operating in this ‘multi-track’ world insist on calling it interference at all, not realizing that the boundaries between us, one another, our technology, and nature don’t actually exist. They’re only artifacts of the methods we’ve used to look at the world, just like the distortions you get when digitizing a piece of analog sight or sound. Like early digitization systems, the crude tools we’ve been thinking with have, in Watts’ view, forced all of reality’s ‘wiggles’ into unhelpful ‘lines and rows.’”

–Colin Marshall, “Alan Watts On Why Our Minds And Technology Can’t Grasp Reality“, 4/13/2012