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> It seems to me that even with our limited intellects, we have already figured out an awful lot of what there actually is to figure out. Really? It seems jus
by JackFr 8y ago
> It seems to me that even with our limited intellects, we have already figured out an awful lot of what there actually is to figure out.
Really? It seems just as likely that our brains are fooling us into believing that they are universal knowing machines.
We understand that there are real things that we cannot see. Microscopes and telescopes and other sorts of detectors outside the visual spectrum allow us to "see" them. That is we have technology which present reality as a simulacrum our eyes can see. Similarly with sound, we know that there are sounds which we cannot hear, but through technology we can represent them in a form which we can consume. But to be clear, we are still not seeing or hearing these things, we are seeing and hearing artifacts of our technology which we accept as corresponding with reality.
Is it that hard to imagine that there are true thoughts that we literally cannot think? And any sort of technology which would help us, would really just be showing us a pale representation of the reality?