Humans will probably never know.Are there things in the physical universe that we can never find out? — Vera Mont
Both.If so, is that due to our limitations or time constraint?
Yes: planck and relativistic phenomena ...Are there things beyond our range of perception, ...
I can't imagine it.beyond our ... imagination or
Certainly (re: technical impossibilities).our ... ability to devise instruments?
How about a "God" that hides from us?Or are there things we are not meant to discover ...
Well, 'narrow AI systems' like AlphaGo neural nets play the strategic game Go in ways which are incomprehensible – black boxes – to the best human players and students of the game. I suspect in the coming decade or so we'll encounter many more 'black box solutions' – rendering our species cognitively obsolete – in disciplines automated (colonized) by AGI such as finance, engineering, computation, molecular biology, nanotech, neuroscience, chemistry, fundamental physics, ... public administration, etc.or not able to comprehend?
So, at the end, what we can never find out is the meaning of your question itself — Angelo Cannata
:up: :up:I can't subscribe to a philosophy that doesn't know what knowledge is; it would be contrary to my daily experience. — Vera Mont
Well, to begin with it seems, "the point" is to interpret questions we (still) do not know how to (definitively) answer and thereby reason towards more probative questions. Or, in other words, "the point of doing philosophy" is learning how to overcome (or, at least, mitgate) the ignorance of one's own ignorance.[W]hat is the point of doing philosophy? — Angelo Cannata
Philosophy shows us that everything can be criticized. The very concept of knowledge can be criticized. — Angelo Cannata
If you don’t like to explore different ways of thinking, what is the point of doing philosophy? — Angelo Cannata
We have just enough knowledge, it seems, to take us to the precipice. — Tom Storm
Are there things in the physical universe that we can never find out? — Vera Mont
Are there things in the physical universe that we can never find out?
If so, is that due to our limitations or time constraint? — Vera Mont
Are there things in the physical universe that we can never find out? — Vera Mont
about minds in terms of Turing machines and computationalism is a bit behind the times — wonderer1
The computational theory of mind is pretty much still in vogue. — Lionino
Absolutely. For example: what is the ontological bedrock of physical reality? No matter how deeply we explore, we can't know we've reached rock bottom.Are there things in the physical universe that we can never find out? — Vera Mont
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