A Butterfly Contemplates the Universe

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(True, he sees but a portion of the Whole;  yet so indeed do we.   Even among fully-grown Homo sapiens, there are some that never do contemplate such aspects of the universe as the intrinsic topology of four-manifolds, their whole narrow vision being restricted to the differential geometry of surfaces embedded in 3-space.)