(March 22, 2022 at 7:14 pm)Belacqua Wrote: The human mind is inherently limited, with built-in biases. Many of these are not like homophobia, which can be educated away. This is more like the inability of rats to comprehend prime numbers. Their minds just don't go that far.
We are animals who evolved a certain way, and we see the world in that way.
I thought a bit more about this and it is not limited to our understanding of the universe. it is an issue in mathematics as well.
For example, due to the limitations of the observable universe, we will simply never know the complete factorization into primes of every positive integer less than Graham's number. We can prove that such factorizations exist, but we will never know them. There is simply not enough information capacity in the observable universe to hold that information. Furthermore, no other beings in the observable universe will be able to have that knowledge either.
Such mathematical knowledge is *permanently* beyond anything we can ever know.
But that lack of capacity doesn't negate those things we *can* know.
