On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > > On 22 Jun 2011, at 01:56, Rex Allen wrote: > >> Related to the Progress and Happiness thread: >> >> http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/09/this-is-the-dream-time.html >> > > But I am not sure there will be a point where everything worth knowing will > be known. In the terrestrial realm (the left hypostases, the one without the > "*", like G) we will forever scratch the surface. And the right hypostases, > like G*, are a sort of promise of an inexhaustible collection of bigger and > bigger surprises, in the terrestrial realm and perhaps beyond). > > On the contrary, the more we will know, the more we will be aware of the > ignorance.
I guess the key phrase is "worth knowing". Worth? I think that he is referring to a particular kind of knowledge...knowledge that gives you some advantage over your competitors or over your environment. And he doesn't say that we will know everything...just that "truly new and important discoveries will be quite rare." But, again there's another ambiguous phrase: "important discoveries". Important? To whom, in what sense? Again, I think that he is referring to a particular kind of discovery...discoveries that gives you some advantage over your competitors or over your environment. Ultimately he's asserting that humanity will never escape the competitive evolutionary framework. Our current golden age is just a temporary reprieve. Though, "evolution" takes on a different color in unchanging plenitudinous Platonia. Rex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
