the pacific ocean cannot be swallowed in a gulp

Experience is flux. The manner in which our minds consider their surroundings does much to detract from the idea implicated by this deceptively simple statement. Information is observed and considered in tiny increments and analyzed one bit a time. In all its extraordinary complexity, this the best that the human brain can do with its surroundings. To claim any sort of total understanding of reality is inconceivably more difficult than downing the pacific bit by bit with a cup. To make any sort of claim or statement about the totality of reality and experience is the sheerest of pernicious nonsense.