Arguably, there are already many concepts that we as a society understand deeply but any individual human is completely incapable of grasping. Certainly, no sin

Arguably, there are already many concepts that we as a society understand deeply but any individual human is completely incapable of grasping. Certainly, no single human could possibly hope to understand the whole sum of modern human knowledge; collectively we already constitute an intelligence billions of times more complex than a single human. In fact, there's a good argument to be made that the scientific process can't even work on the scale of a single human because it would be destroyed by bias; it's entirely in the notion of how you communicate and provide evidence for your theories to other people that the objectivity in science arises. When it comes to whether any intelligent system could understand the entire universe, I think at some point we start reaching the level where the terms of the question start to break down. What if we required an intelligence that spanned the entire universe in order to understand the universe? Is there maybe a sense in which we can say that the universe taken as a unit necessarily understands itself already? We start to rub up against very fundamental epistemological concepts that might not hold when we're considering a system vastly different from a human being.