And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us,
to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand,
and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,
to till the ground from whence he was taken.

“They’re extremely simple and accessible objects, which is not always the case with math research,” Schwartz said. “It’s the kind of thing that you could explain … to an eight-year-old.”

This doesn’t make much sense, does it?
Driving ‘man’ “forth from the garden of Eden”, that is… The Mobius band, as stated above, is a simple thing!

After all, knowing good and evil is a natural thing. For humans… ‘Man’ doesn’t need to ‘raise a hand and eat some fruit’… Living among like-minded peers is enough. As long as they talk to each other, of course.
As for ‘living for ever’… that’s impossible. Not only for ‘men’ but also for gods. So many of them are nothing more than memories… like ‘ordinary’ deceased people, right?

So.
Somebody mentioned it in one of the most interesting books known to ‘man’. Not only interesting but also extremely consequential.
Then it must mean something. Despite not making much sense, on the face of it…

What if we look at the whole thing as a metaphor?
As the story of how ‘man’ has become a conscious human being? Instead of a mere historical rendition…

‘But I was under the impression that all cosmogonies were exactly that. Stories meant to impart sense to the Universe. To make it acceptable to the conscious ‘man’…’

Indeed. That’s exactly what cosmogonies do. Did…
Only calling them cosmogonies shreds the magic. To use another metaphor, using the wrong name transforms a swan into a lame duck.

OK, the Bible is a cosmogony. One of many.
But there are many ways to read it.
From the inside, as a ‘bible’. And from the outside. As a cosmogony…

Which brings us to the point.
Science – cold, rational observation performed by conscious agents – can be made only from the ‘outside’. Any personal involvement of the observing agent, any feelings towards the observed subject, will only add layers of bias on top of the ‘desired’ knowledge.

Ouch?!?

How can a ‘rational conscious agent’ observe the world they live in as if they were on the outside?!?
Not only ‘banished outside’ but also made ‘to till the ground from whence he was taken’? …

No hard feelings allowed!
No feelings at all, actually…