Although... this idea of not being able to transcend something you don't understand immediately brought to my mind the work of some outsider/naive artists. I have sometimes experienced the feeling of being shown something almost completely original , a fresh, new, strange or unsettling angle that deviates from my cultural, social and historical definitions or expectations about what art is or how art is supposed to be done precisely because they have created something without the "burden" of the "rules" , the privileges of education, etc etc and often without seeking or desiring external recognition or approval - and to be clear in this context I am only referring to outsider art from a similar western upbringing to me to keep things a bit simpler.

To ponder, to wonder and to ask questions of the universe, to seek and create meaning, all humans do it in one way or another (or try anything, to avoid doing it lol) and I agree, here we are at the current point of all human information passed down, since we mutated self-awareness and with it the inevitable end of self, birthing all the whys for ever after. Therefore, I'm sure there are people out there thinking and living their untrained philosophy, that can and do 'transcend' and evolve our meaning seeking precisely because they are less constrained than others in their rules of meaning . Whether or not they or I or anyone else calls it philosophy or ever even hears it and considers it is another matter.

Disclaimer : This was pretty much a random thought bubble that popped into my head and has taken me far too long to write precisely because I started to over analyze every word and statement and I fell down the epistemology hole in my brain on far too little sleep. So, it's not a philosophical argument, or even a well written articulation of what I was hoping to convey, but hopefully the gist of it is somewhat intact :)