RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy!
June 7, 2015 at 2:10 am
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2015 at 2:14 am by JuliaL.)
(June 6, 2015 at 10:31 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: We should be content to know what we can know, and recognize our limitations. That ultimate explanations are not needed is proven by the fact that we presently don't have them, and yet science continues to progress anyway.My bolding.
My agreement is boundless and, I hope, my intellectual humility is prominent and appropriate.
I find the problems of solipsism and the failure of inference to be, at least currently and probably eternally, insoluble.
If there is a way to tell that the outer frontiers of the known have nothing beyond, I cannot see what it could be.
Even were that the case, then reflection would have to be turned inward to see if repeated examination of the 'known' yielded the same results as previously or have things changed.
So I am resigned, comfortable and even somewhat encouraged to there always being new knowledge to seek.
My fear of heaven is that at some small fraction of eternity progress would stop and nothing new would ever be found despite sound argument that it could be there.
This is my horror of omniscience and the basis for belief that a hypothetical all-knowing God would create man out of an agony of boredom.
We're fun to watch.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?