Will We Ever Be Smart Enough To Understand Reality?
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Will we ever be smart enough to understand reality?
Even with the help of artificial super intelligence as an implant in our brains or through altered neurons, will we ever be able to grasp it all, the fundamental theory of the universe and basically the fundamental theory of everything?
To use a metaphoric example, will we continue to carve the path of the ants, just become slightly smarter ants? Or will we also reach this universal super intelligence?
This is something I wonder about, I feel just smart enough to understand a lot of things but then there is like this stop when it comes to the truth of existence, truth of the universe and whats outside the universe, basically everything humans still cannot fully understand neither explain, I have this sensation which is pretty weird, its a limiting sensation, like hands pushing inside my brain and it's just clouds and it cant go any further upwards, its a stop, a force limiting it all, pushing downwards, like gravity. I've always felt so alienated about all these thoughts and sensations which I've been having since I was a kid but then suddenly the HBO TV series Westworld got out and all of a sudden I felt understood, I am just like Dolores, we are Dolores, human beings are Dolores, Dolores is just missing one little code in her system to understand it all, to understand all of her existence. Is this us humans?
Will we ever be able to comprehend it? Some scientists say no but no one has really done any research on transhumanism, cause we haven't got there yet, there is no way to do the research cause the merge hasn't happened, the technology is just not there yet.
I seriously hope we will acquire this knowledge and wisdom and that I manage to stay alive until we do. I'm certain this huge revelation of it all will take place at some point but its not so soon, or is it?
If we humans manage to find a way within the next 50 years to keep our consciousness alive wether as a human or in a machine, DNA or whatever, at least for 50 or 100 more years (cause then most certainly we will have figured out a way to keep us alive for even longer) maybe we all will be able to enter that time?
This is super interesting. I have many thoughts around this subject and like to play around with it. For instance what if we actually are made by something/someone else just as a research project to see how fast the human beings can reach higher intelligence and understand what that is all going on, that we actually were a part of this wicked research project. Just like we study mice. And that they do not have the same physical laws or spacetime as us, so like 1 million years is like seconds for them if they choose, like they can speed up and slow down according to when they check in on us? And that they also can visit us and walk among us, just take shape in a form which is either visible or invisible for us. That they know how to manipulate physics to their own benefits, true scientists. What if even they started as human beings and now they planted us just to understand where they came from?
One thing is for sure, we humans are not that special - its a vast space out there, and even outside the universe something must take place. We have so many limitations, we can only see, hear, and feel in some frequencies, maybe the universe is full of life, we just simply can't see it? We just dont have the senses to discover it?
Here we touch The Fermi Paradox, Ill write about this some other time, in the meanwhile, you can read this by Tim Urban: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
What do you guys think? Do we, humans, have limitations nothing will solve? Or will we be able to understand The Fundamental Theory of Reality at some point?
Update
And a super important question, maybe the most essential one, which were added in the comments below by @taskmaster4450
Are we even supposed to understand reality?
His comment is great add-on to this post, read it below:D
We co-create reality. Here are some laws of creation that may assist your awareness:
My advice is not to get caught up in the trap of agreeing that 'we know this' and 'we don't know that' - which 'scientists' like to propagate as if they alone are the pinnacle of human consciousness and if 'they' don't know something then no-one does ;)
HEY @ura-soul ! GREAT comment! Love to hear other peoples reflections and how they put it into words. I'm very grateful for your time and adding value to my text :)) I totally agree with you. We live in our own subjective world, and all we need to do is to create our own meaning. Don't take life too seriously and just enjoy and find importance in what is around is. Simply being alive is a gift, so bring gifts to others by showing love and gratitude and not get too lost in your own head, like many people sadly get. Thank you :) All the best! Hope to hear more from you! :D Follow you <3
First of all, this is a great post!
"The map is not the territory" - each one of us has a different reality because the information coming to us from our senses processed differently for every person. The implications are that there is no absolute reality :)
Which also means that our brain giving the meaning to stuff... Which also means (Ironic) that there's no absolute meaning to life :D
Please check my blog for this kind of stuff. @paps
Love your comment! Love meeting people who think about all of this! Ill check you out! Thank you! Great to connect :D
Thank you very much :D
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There is even a more basic question: are we suppose to understand reality? And what is it?
Quantum is giving us radical insight into the idea that what we thought was real was not. Now we are suddenly entering upon the spiritual realm when we consider the observer effect.
This only gets more complicated when we add in the concept of the universe being a hologram and multi-dimensions. Is it nothing more than a great big piece of software? Are we existing in many realms at the same time? These are questions that we will continue to focus upon.
The exciting part to all this is I believe mankind will have more time to ponder this since I feel AI will start to handle a great deal of the mundane or physical problems that have plagued mankind. We do have limited abilities. AI, on the other hand, has the ability to expand exponentially.
Ooohh love that question @taskmaster4450 "are we supposed to understand reality"! Damn it that I already didn't put it in there hehe! Wonderful comment, I so glad to meet someone that shares my mindset completely ! Thanks for commenting!!
I believe that AI will help a great deal with these questions as well, as you said, it has the ability to expand exponentially. Perhaps we are even created by an AI. This is sooo interesting I really hope to stay alive to be able to perhaps find an answer to all of this.. he he but I guess, more and more questions will follow.
Great to hear from you!! Looking forward to chat more!
You really hope to stay alive...? I dont know how old you are but I am 47 and I am sure I have another 103 years to go. The human longevity arena is also forging ahead at a very rapid pace. The next 20 years will see medical/scientific breakthroughs which will take blast through the supposed biological ceiling of 120 years.
So I believe you will live long enough to see a great deal of what was previous imagination or sci-fi.
Hey! @taskmaster4450 I didn't see this until now, I need to figure out how I can get notifications on comments bc right now I don't. Yes I hope to stay alive, I hope what you write and other futurists and scientists say is true. I really want to explore and experience the Sci-fi Godlike world we are marching towards!!!
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STOPI don't think humans will ever be able to understand reality. Mainly because most people are too busy living in denial and making up their own distorted versions of what they perceive to be reality.
Haha, couldn't have said it better. Living in illusions are way more comfortable..
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