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Old 10-16-2015, 11:19 AM   #2414
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Originally Posted by peter12 View Post
That isn't his argument. There will probably always be irreducible mysteries that the human creature will never be able to figure out. Chomsky used the example of a rat getting lost in a maze. The researcher, standing about the maze, cries out "how obvious!" Cognitively, the rat is just incapable of finding the solution. That is probably where humans stand viz-a-viz a lot of phenomena.
Yeah I agree with that. I think as humanity has learned more and more, we've figured out things that have opened our eyes to how little we understand and maybe we're just not equipped to figure it out.

Now that we have discovered and observed things on a quantam level, we can see that we literally have no idea what the hell is going on.
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