Abstraction: Humanity's Double-Edged Sword

Talking about the perception vs. conception, the blob of colors vs. the perfected lines, tangible vs. intangible, reptilian impulse vs. human language, short-term vs. the long term, material vs. spiritual, zombie vs. ghost, hedonism vs. sacrifice
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[@israelrabbit1943]

amazing video essay, greetings from Perú!

[@unknownhollow4141]

Again I would like to encourage you by sharing my opinion that your content deserves more views. Additionally, I'm confused about the difference between abstraction and reality. For example: in biology, we can describe plants, animals and humans as 'life forms', as if 'life' is really a thing that appears as many forms similar to Hindu religion.
Now consider the physics of F = m * a. I can perceive and measure m and a, but is F a thing in reality or a mathematical fiction? This way of thinking seems like a rabbit hole to me. Maybe the ability to abstract is not only to map a territory, but also to perceive non-physical reality.

[@Kasperanzaa]

Hello fellow hollow,
Thank you! It's good to hear your support. Maybe I should consider marketing and packaging my content. But then, my content isn't meant to be popular and forcing something into popularity defeats the purpose of it.
To answer your question, and I wrote too much, but I think mereological nihilism would apply to this. I was going to mention it in my video but I forgot because there were too many things to say.
All things are fiction, really. Reality is an amorphous, nebulous sludge. When we assign things meaning, not only are we giving them a definition by carving them out of reality, but there's an actual meaning or story around the object. I think physics equations have stories and meanings that are very "accurate". The carvings are so precise and "proper" that it's very easy to fit the shapes together to make sense.
Force in the equation seems to be a kind of logical conclusion from mass and acceleration. Like I could call a journal and a pen together a writer's toolkit. A writer's toolkit doesn't have to exist, but it can if we want it too, especially if you're a writer. All writer's need a writer's toolkit (journal and pen).
Equations could be seen as a higher reality, a kind of Platonic perfect form, or a potential reality that includes all possible versions of the lower reality in itself. I think this conversation ties into the debate of empiricists versus rationalists; I just haven't studied that part of philosophy so I don't know if it actually does tie or not.
This conversation itself is getting too abstract, so yes we're like Alice in Wonderland and the Cheshire Cat smiles at us :) We need to bring things down again.
I guess all I'm really saying is that there needs to be a continual dialogue or bridge between the abstract utopian symbols and the colorful present moment. We are not Ghosts of the Utopia. We are not Zombies of Hell. We are human beings in reality.

[@unknownhollow4141]

@@Kasperanzaa Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Your notion of a continual dialogue is interesting because I, and I suspect many others, have a desire for some kind of resolution, even though reality may have a nebulous and ambiguous ontology.
In simpler terms reality may be a zebra and a trickster that asks us: am I a black horse with white stripes or a white horse with black stripes? Then the zebra sits back and laughs like a troll how politicians, biologists, philosophers and so on start to argue.
Ironically, it seems to go against my nature to accept the nebulous and ambiguous nature of reality. It's like a need to be a ghost of utopia or a zombie of hell. Like the snowball can't just stay on top of the hill and needs to roll down one way or another.
A bird needs to sing. A human can choose to sing. Yet a human seems to want to give up that freedom and become a more particular being.