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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
You’re still confusing “knowing everything” with the capability to understand everything. So, a lot of this God talk and stuff about the rise and fall of civilisations is mostly irrelevant. There remains the distinct and very real possibility that there is nothing we as a species are incapable of understanding (which again doesn’t mean we know everything or could easily know everything, just that nothing is beyond us).
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Oh great, this is going to devolve into a Corsi level game of semantics, because if you understand something you have to know about something to understand it. If you understand everything, you know everything. Except there appears to be plenty beyond us. For example, we don't understand gravity. We don't understand dreaming. We don't understand yawning. We don't understand consciousness. We don't understand quantum mechanics. We don't even understand matter, which makes up everything around us. We don't understand and that has involved the greatest minds in the history of humankind taking on these questions. I'm certain your next play is to say we "could some day" understand these things, but that is a guestimation or projection, not unlike looking at the math and making the assumption there are thousands of other intelligent life forms in the universe and applying the bell curve to determine we are possibly in the middle (at best). Do the math. It's not hard. Well, it's a little harder than Euclid's common notions, and you screwed those up, so maybe it is harder than it looks.