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It goes deeper than that. I think the human mind is fundamentally incapable of understanding Nature and reality. We make clever models, increasingly sophisticat
by GnarfGnarf 11y ago
It goes deeper than that. I think the human mind is fundamentally incapable of understanding Nature and reality. We make clever models, increasingly sophisticated and successful at manipulating matter and energy within the limited realm of our perception.
However, we will never truly grasp the outside World. Every discovery will open up another can of worms, in an endless chase for more refined models. Today it's Dark Energy and Dark Matter. Centuries from now our views will seem as naïve and simplistic as Phlogistics and 19th-century Ether.
That's OK though, as long as we're having fun. And don't blow ourselves up. And love and laugh.
- eli_gottlieb 11y agoIf our models are of ever-increasing sophistication and empirical success, why don't they count as truly grasping the world?