Have we reached the limit of knowledge?🤔
What is World?
While it is true that there has been tremendous scientific progress in the last century, our knowledge of nature is not yet complete.
Not only has the scientific community not found the holly grill of physics - one that combines the very large (general relation) with the very small (quantum mechanics) - but it still does not know what the majority of the universe is made of.
The theory of degradation that is being sought still lies. And there are other puzzles that can't be solved yet, like the simple process of creating awareness.
Can science find all the answers? The human brain is the result of blind and erratic evolution. It was designed to solve our practical problems of survival and reproduction, not to expose the fabric of the universe.
This revelation has led some philosophers to take a curious form of despair, arguing that, inevitably, there are things we will never understand, so that one day human science will reach an invincible level. If she has not already reached it.
It is possible that some of the questions are related to what linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky called a "mystery." If anyone believes that only humans have unlimited faculty of knowledge - which sets us apart from other animals -
it is that they have not fully accepted Darwin's idea that Homo sapiens is part of the natural world.
Now, has this argument really been supported? It should be noted that even the human brain was not ready to discover its origin. And yet to some extent that is what we have done. Something can be lost in frustration.
'Mysterious' arguments
"Mysterious" thinkers attach great importance to biological arguments and similes.
In his 1983 reference work, The Modularity of the Mind, the late philosopher Jerry Fodor stated that it was necessary to "create ideas that we could never have imagined."
Similarly, the philosopher Colin McGann argued in a series of books and articles that all minds suffer from a "scientific shutdown" on certain issues.
Just as dogs and cats will never understand numbers, so too the human brain is certainly closed to some of the wonders of the world.
McGann suspects that this is due to some philosophical puzzles, such as the problem of mental-body relations.
The way our brain's bodily processes give rise to consciousness is impossible to solve because their real solutions are simply straightforward, inaccessible to the human brain.
If McGann is OK, and what happens is that our brains aren't ready to solve certain problems, there's no harm in trying, because they'll keep us in awe.
۔ McGann himself is convinced that there is indeed a natural solution to the problem of mental-physical relations, but that the human brain will never be able to find it.
Even psychologist Steven Pinker, often accused of scientific arrogance, sympathizes with the mystery argument. If the Pinkers did not need to understand the vast universe in order to propagate their genes, then why would natural selection have given us the intellectual capacity to do so?
Incomprehensible ideas
Mystery often calls the question of scientific limits a clear doctomy: either we can solve a problem, or it will challenge us forever. Either we have access to knowledge, or we are closed.
There will come a time when human inquiry will suddenly hit a metaphorical wall of bricks, after which we will be doomed forever in search of misunderstandings.
However, another possibility that the mystery is often overlooked is that the results fall slowly. Reaching the point of interrogation is not the same as hitting a wall, but getting stuck in a swamp.
We maintain a steady pace, even when we try harder, and then there is no complicated point beyond which progress is impossible.
The mystery essay presents another ambiguity, which my colleague Michael Welk and I have pointed out in a scholarly article.
Are the mystics claiming that we will never find the correct scientific theory of any aspect of reality, or are they saying that maybe we can find that theory, but we will never understand it?
In the science fiction series Guide to the Galactic Hitchhiker, the alien civilization builds a massive supercomputer to calculate the ultimate answer to the concept of life, the universe and everything in between.
When the computer finally announces that the answer is "42", no one has what it means (what's more, they build an even bigger computer to find it). )۔
Is there still a "mystery" question if the correct answer is found but you have no idea what it means or don't fully understand? Mysteries often combine these two possibilities.
This statement suggests that we may be able to get the correct scientific theory, but the answer will be the same as the answer to "42". But on the other hand, some would argue that this already happens with a theory like quantum mechanics.
Even quantum physicist Richard Fanman recognized this: "I can safely say that no one understands quantum mechanics."
Would the mystery say that humans are "scientifically closed" to the quantum world? According to quantum mechanics, particles can be in two places at the same time, or can come out of space by chance.
Although difficult to understand, quantum theory allows one to make extraordinarily accurate predictions.
The phenomena of "quantum retrieval" have been confirmed in many experimental trials, and the scientific community has begun to develop applications based on this theory.
Mysteries also often forget how incomprehensible the first scientific ideas and concepts were when they were first brought up. No element of our cognitive structure has developed the theory of relativity, evolutionary biology, or ...
Brain enlargement
Now, can our mediocre brain really answer all the imaginary questions and understand all the problems? The answer depends on whether we are talking about the brain alone without supplements. There are many things that cannot be done with the mind alone.
But Homo sapiens is a species that makes tools, including various scientific tools.
For example, on our own, our sensory organs fail to detect ultraviolet light, ultrasound waves, X-rays, or gravitational waves. But if we equip ourselves with some sophisticated technology, we can understand all these things.
To overcome the limitations of our understanding, scientists have developed, among others, a series of tools and techniques, such as microscopes, radiographic films, geyser counters or radio satellite detectors.
All of these devices increase our access to the mind, as they "translate" the bodily processes in a way that allows us to find our sense organs.
So, are we "off" from the point of view of Ultra Violet Light? In a way, yes, but we are not if we consider all our technical instruments and measuring instruments.
Similarly, we use physical objects (such as paper and pencils) to greatly increase the capacity of our naked mind's memory. According to British philosopher Andy Clark, our minds expand, almost literally, beyond our skin and our skulls, in the form of notebooks, computer screens, maps and filing cabinets.
Mathematics is another extraordinary technology for expanding the brain, as it allows us to represent concepts that we cannot simply think of with our brains. For example, no scientist can expect to mentally represent all the complex and interconnected processes that make up our climate system.
And that's why we've built math models and computers that carry a lot of weight for us.
Collection of knowledge
The most important thing is that we can expand our minds like our fellow men. What makes our species unique is that we are capable of creating cultures, especially holistic cultural knowledge.
The human brain population is far smarter than any isolated brain.
And the collaborating company is Excellence Science. Not to mention that no one in the scientific community will be able to unravel the mysteries of the universe on their own. But they succeed in working collectively.
As Isaac Newton wrote, he can see more "on the shoulders of the giants." By collaborating with their peers, scientists can expand the scope of their knowledge and thus gain more individuality than any of them.
Today, fewer and fewer people understand that theoretical physics, even the physicist himself, is at the forefront.
The unity of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity will undoubtedly present an extraordinary challenge, because otherwise scientists would have made it long ago.
This is when it is possible to understand how the human brain gives birth to consciousness, meaning and intention. But is there a compelling reason that allows us to assume that this problem will always be out of our reach? Or will our amazement and confusion at their thinking never diminish?
In this public debate, which I moderated a few years ago, the philosopher Daniel Dennett raised a very simple objection to the mystery formed by the minds of other animals: other animals are not even capable of understanding questions.
A dog will never know if there is a prime number that is the largest, and will never understand this question. Instead, people can ask each other and themselves questions, consider them, and in doing so can quickly find better and better versions.
Mysteries invite us to imagine the existence of questions that are perfectly understandable to human beings themselves, but whose answers will always be out of our reach. Is this concept really proud (or even more permanent)?
We are going to do a mental exercise. Imagine that a group of extraterrestrial "anthropologists" visited our planet about 40,000 years ago and wrote a scientific report on their own scientific abilities. Can this strange naked ape find something about the structure of its solar system, the rotation of space-time, or even its own evolutionary resources?
At the time, when our ancestors lived in small hunter-gatherer bands, it is possible that this result was presented as highly unlikely, although humans have learned a great deal about animals and plants in their immediate environment.
He knew enough about the physics of everyday objects to know the world around him and to make some smart tools, but there was nothing like it. Scientific activity.
There was no writing, no math, no artificial gadgets to increase the accessibility of our senses. As a result, almost all of the beliefs of those who were about the general structure of the world were completely wrong. Humans had no idea of the real causes of natural disasters, diseases, celestial bodies, climate change, or any other natural phenomenon.
This may be the report of our extraterrestrial anthropologist.
Evolution has demonstrated this move, which involves some information of local interest, such as aerial vibrations (due to nearby objects and people) and ancient sensory organs to receive electromagnetic waves within the 400-700 range.
Straight along. Nanometers, as well as some large molecules that are scattered in its atmosphere.
However, these creatures are completely oblivious to anything that goes beyond their narrow-mindedness.
Furthermore, they cannot see most of the single cellular lifestyles in their environment, simply because they are too small to detect their eyes.
Further more, your brain is prepared to think about the behavior of medium (mostly solid) objects in a state of low gravity.
None of them have ever been able to get out of their planet's gravitational field to experience weight loss, nor have they been subjected to artificial acceleration to experience more powerful gravitational forces.
They can't even imagine temporarily rotating curves, since evolution has programmed its ordinary brains with the geometric space of space that has zero rotation.
Finally, we are sorry to report that much of the universe is beyond its reach.
But those strangers would be completely wrong.
From a biological point of view, we are no different from what we were 40,000 years ago, but now we have the full range of bacteria and viruses, DNA and molecules, supernovae and black holes, the full range of electromagnetic energy, and infinity. I have knowledge. Strange things.
Thanks to Einstein's theory of general relativity, we also know non-ecliptic geometry and the rotation of space-time. Our minds have "reached" objects millions of light-years from our planet, and so have our tiny organs, which are located within the perceptual limits of our penis.
Using a variety of tactics and tools, humans have greatly expanded their knowledge of the world.
Corollary: Biology is not an inexperienced destiny
Past mental exercise should serve as counseling against frustration with human knowledge. Who knows what other tools of brain expansion we can think of to overcome our biological limitations? Biology is not an eternal destination.
If we stop looking at the achievements that have been made over the centuries, it seems premature to make any hasty claim about the closure of knowledge.
Mysteries often uphold the values of "humility" and "humility", but, on closer inspection, their status is far less moderate than it appears.
Consider, for example, McGann's assertion that the problem of mental-physical relations is "an ultimate mystery" that we will never "deviate" from. In making such a statement, McGann learned a great deal about the three elements: the brain and the body, the structure of the human brain, and the nature of the problem due to the interconnectedness.
They both. But McGann offers only a cursory glimpse into the science of human perception, and pays little or no attention to the various tools used to enhance the brain.
I think, in terms of mystery, it's time to turn the tables. If one claims that a given problem will be freed from human comprehension forever, one has to show at some level why there is no combination of brain-enhancing devices that bring us closer to a solution.
Allows to come. Probably a factor as to why they're doing so poorly.
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