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- The advances of science are extremely intoxicating.
- Often my brain struggles to navigate the science we currently know. Time is running out to know it all.
- Aristotle said understanding how the world works is a basic human needs.
Dec 15, 2018 08:27PM
What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge

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- 'God of the gaps' - Charles Coulson.

- For many ancient cultures in India, China and Middle East, religion was not about worshiping a Supernatural Intelligence but precisely the attempt to appreciate the limits of our understanding and the languages.
Dec 15, 2018 08:37PM
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- Kurzwell talks about the Singularity, a moment when the intelligence of our technology will exceed our human.

-Lord Kevin believed in 1900 that moment had come : 'There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurements'.

- What happens then if we encounter a question that cannot be answered? How does one cope with not knowing?
Dec 15, 2018 08:34PM
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- Time and again, history reveals the opposite to be the case, this must always acts as a warning that scientific knowledge is PROVISIONAL.

- For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to venture out into the WILDS OF UNKNOWN.

- Does time exists at all or does it emerge as a consequence of more fundamental concepts.
Dec 15, 2018 08:30PM
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