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Originally Posted by Fuzz
It looks like you misunderstood what Pepsi was saying. it's not that we know everything, it's that we have the ability to, one day, understand everything. There is nothing in the universe so fantastically unimaginable that one day our brains won't be able to learn about, dissect, expand our knowledge of, and understand. I'd file things like real, true ghosts in that category. Fantastically unbelievable, but also non-existent. Our brains can't puzzle it out becuase they don't exist in the universe.
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Yeah, I didn't get that and I don't think it was broadly understood that way either. It's also really silly to suggest that. To know everything is to become God. When we learn the answer to one problem, we come up with two new questions. We will never know everything because there is just too much to know. I suspect our species will die out before that possibility has potential to play out. I don't think we take into consideration the knowledge loss we will experience as well. I don't think people are aware just how much knowledge we have lost during the rise and fall of civilizations. This cycle will continue meaning knowing everything is unlikely.
I think we grossly overplay what we think we know and where we are technologically. You do realize it has only been 10 years since the UK converted to fully digital television service and the US only an additional six years. We still have analog telephone services in place in many countries, including the US! We have been broadcasting very weak radio signals for just over 125 years, commercial strength broadcasts for less than a century. Those signals have yet to reach even the boundary of the intermediate arm of our spiral galaxy, or not even 1/3 of the way to center of the galaxy. That should be sobering to consider. Our tech is not strong and our knowledge is in its infancy when measured on the galactic scale. Until we understand our own planet I don't see any hope of understanding the complexities of the universe.