(that photon) that doesn´t know what light is and that itself is light
So, photons are involved in the wave-particle duality and in this double ignorance.
Photon doesn´t know that itself is light as the same way atom doesn´t know that itself is matter (neither what matter is). As a defined word can´t be in the definition of that word. Does a dog know that he is a dog and what a dog is? I,d dare to say that , in his own way, yes.
We can read later in this book ´The fact of not knowing is the gift that makes /every simple thing that happens sublime`. You can agree or not with this verse, but on reading it I recalled my childhood, where all of us were ignorant photons.
With regards to the ignorance of inanimate things, I remember this poem by Manuel Alcántara
The sea doesn´t know that it´s Sunday
the waves unaided
reveal themselves inmortals
every time one dies
the same one reaches its place
The sea doesn´t know that is a survivor
without watch and friends
the sea floats on the sea
neither accomplice nor witness
lost in thought of its blue
and indifferet like God himself
While it comes and goes on the shore
the sea doesn´t know that I´m gazing at it
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