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That's the nice thing about the "shoulders of giants" though. By and large, scientific progress is cumulative. The cutting edge of quantum theory a few decades
by jbert 18y ago
That's the nice thing about the "shoulders of giants" though.
By and large, scientific progress is cumulative. The cutting edge of quantum theory a few decades back is now undergraduate-level.
Yes, there are probably theoretical limits to human understanding, but the analogy with fish breaks down because fish don't (as far as we know) have cultural accumulation of knowledge.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoaccumulation of knowledge is different from a the possibility of a fundamental difference in the way reality works and the way our evolved brain works. see "wave/particle duality" for the simplest example of something that might be totally obvious to another type of intelligence.