The Tree Of Knowledge, Not Understanding

 

Errol Morris finishes his series on anosognosia with a parable:

When God created man (and woman), he gave them the ability to perceivethe world, but withheld from them the ability to understand it.  Wecould come up with one cockamamie theory after another, but realunderstanding would always elude us.  It was mean-spirited on God'spart.  And to make matters even worse, God gave us the desire but notthe wherewithal to make sense of experience.  One might easily foreseethat this would lead...