It Is As Easy To Not RecognizeA Falsehood As It Is To Not Understand A Truth

The mind has only a finite capacity to understand ideas and those ideas which contain too much information for a particular mind cannot be discerned to be true or false.First the most obvious case is of a difficult mathematical problem which is true but cannot be understood to be such by a certain person or persons because of it's complexity.This is a well know phenomenon which has been experienced by us all at one time or another and is accepted as a part of life.It is true but we cannot understand that it is true.However there is another side and that is of a falsehood which is believed but cannot be understood to be a falsehood.If someone tells you something and it is too complex to understand then it may be true or false and unless there is some experimental way to tell you will never know based on your deductive abilty.Some religious and political doctrines are obviously false in yet are believed by people sometimes for their entire lives and how else could it be.If a person's mind does'nt allow him to discern whether a concept is true or false then no amount of time will allow him to grasp the truth.He will go on believing a falsehood or disbelieving a truth for his entire life.Of course the more complex the theory the smaller the number of people who will understand it until as a limit virtually an entire society can be duped by a flawed theory especially if the theory has a defense mechanism to destroy non believers .Now if a false theory has defense mechanism then the false theory can persist for centuries or perhaps for as long as man exists.That would be tragic end for humanity to constantly relive customs and repeat obsessive compulsive behavior for millenia.It is almost as if these people are possessed by the human equivalent of a programming virus.So man's mind inhabits a narrow range between truths which he cannot understand and falsehoods which he believes but likewise cannot understand as such.History is almost completely made up of economic and social theories and religions which translated into national movements which were later shown to be false but which were almost universally believed at the time.When a theory is too complex to be understood as false but is embraced by the crowd then there is no safety in numbers only danger.