Is there a limit to how much we can discover ?

[CarbonCopy]

Does our brains or conciseness limit us ?

If this is so, then how can we prove this ?

[MonDie]

Many things in our universe interact, and that is why we gain knowledge by making inferences from our observations. Nobody has immediate observation of anything except their own mind.

 

You can also question the nature of "knowing." Scientists know things reasonably well because they can test their claims. However, people think of untestable claims all the time. A great example is the claim "I think, therefore I am." To some people, that is the only unconditional statement they can make with certainty.

Maybe natural selection conditioned us to think up certain untestable ideas. We just can't know they're true in the sense that a scientists knows things are true. Of course, many religious people claim to "know" with great "certainty" that "God" "exists".

Edited January 4, 2013 by Mondays Assignment: Die

[PeterJ]

Yes, our brains and consciousness will limit us if we think that there is no knowledge to be had except via mentation. There is also knowledge by identity, which Aristotle reasoned would be the only form of true knowledge. Hence 'Cogito'. But my guess is that there is no such limit and we can know whatever can be known. The Upanishads tell us, 'the Unknown is not the Unknowable', and I have come to trust this old text.

 

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