Can you teach algebra to a german shepard? No, the dog's brain is incapable of understanding advanced mathematics.
Our brains are way more capable, but do we have similar limits? Is there knowledge and understanding that our brains are incapable of even imagining? What if there are things going on that our sense organs cannot sense and we cannot imagine sensing?We now understand a bat's radar, but what else is out there we are missing? Some people believe that humans are in the process of figuring out everything.
I have a hard time believing that.
Are we close to gaining scientific knowledge about what happens after we die? along with quite a few folks around the world, I believe that some mental processing, like prayer, has a real effect on what happens.
Can't explain that.
Ever seen the movie "What the Bleap Do We Know?" It will blow your mind to see how much there is we can not explain with conventional thinking.
We seem to have a strong need to explain everything.
Maybe that's why we have learned so much.
We feel uncomfortable with the unknown.
Like fear of the dark.
Do the gods create lightning to show dissatisfaction with us?We've long rejected that explanation as primitive, but I'm sure some such explanation was absolutely believed by many intelligent people.
Do you really think that some of our current "Knowledge" won't be rejected as curiously primitive a couple hundred years in the future? Can we live without knowing everything?Sure.
It's actually easier not having to be a know-it-all.
And our friends will enjoy us more if we're not.