Knowing that I don't know

[ObliviousGenius]

It seems like whenever I think I've found an answer it raises two more questions. And when I try to answer one of those questions, I get another two questions. All the facts and knowledge I attain makes me realize two things: The limitations of human knowledge and perception are unknown. Likewise, the limitations of human ignorance is unknown. I know that I don't know, but I don't know what I don't know.

Is it really possible to understand or perceive our limitations?

I fully believe that we are so smart that we understand that we are stupid. This just leads me to even more confusion. My only solution is to just say, "It is what it is".

Are you all content in knowing that you just won't know? Does it bother you?

 

[HDINTP]

It is one at least now one of things we can be sure about. But it is nice that we are able to admit it to ourselves. I am ok with that i mean even if i understood almost everything i would still thing that i am stupid and it would be probably true all the time no matter how hard i tried. I don´t think we have got any limitations. It only looks like that right now but as time passes we are pushing the boundaries however there will probably always be something else. Something more than we can understand.

So no it doesn´t bother me because if it did i wouldn´t be able to finish anyway which means that you still have something to do not like you had to but you can you will always have an opportunity to do or if you want to achieve more.

You can consider imortant everything so i think it is good for you to think about that like you do. There will be probably unanswerable but you would be able to understand it if you had more time.

Yes we are most likely able to understand our stupidity if we were not we wouldn´t be able to understand so much we would be blind at some points. We are still. In your life and our lives we won´t be able to get all the answers and i am not sure about no one will...

 

[Beholder]

It's impossible to know anything. And even if you did know something, you would have no way of knowing that it's true... It drives me crazy, knowing that all my aspirations are doomed to failure by their very nature.
That said, I usually fluctuate between going crazy trying to understand everything, and just accepting that "It is what it is" (I actually use that exact phrase all the time).
Dude I completely get you.

 

[Cognisant]

Are you all content in knowing that you just won't know? Does it bother you?

Stop and smell the roses kiddo, you're missing out on the stupid things.

I know the limitations of being human, but I consider this transitory, consider the progress of the past 50 years, consider how much the world will change in the next 50, personally I'm far more concerned about the possibility of knowing everything, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it, hopefully never.

 

[Agent Intellect]

My biggest fear is that someday I will run out of questions to ask.

 

[ObliviousGenius]

Stop and smell the roses kiddo, you're missing out on the stupid things.

I know the limitations of being human, but I consider this transitory, consider the progress of the past 50 years, consider how much the world will change in the next 50, personally I'm far more concerned about the possibility of knowing everything, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it, hopefully never.

Understood. I've never really liked the present, maybe that's why I'm so oblivious to it. I think I need to realize that my future is also my present, lest I live my life completely oblivious to the "stupid things".

 

[Cogwulf]

Known unknowns and unknown unknowns.

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I apologise for not contributing anything of value.

 

[Pizzabeak]

The Universe is more beautiful than you can ever imagine.

 

[Jellybones]

How do you know?

 

[the_s_rabbit]

Like anyone can even know that.

 

[Pizzabeak]

Well you can come to that conclusion after you come to the conclusion that you probably don't 'really know anything'. Also, the Universe, from what I've seen of it, which probably isn't much, certainly isn't 'ugly' - but then again how could anyone know that, so whatever really.

 

[Vrecknidj]

Timothy Ferris, in his book Coming of Age in the Milky Way, suggests that our awareness of our ignorance is the key insight in the advancement of human beings. We have truly begun to move forward, philosophically, scientifically, etc., since we have begun to come to terms with the fact that "what we don't know" is so significantly more vast than "what we do know."

 

[Cognisant]

Except some people take that absence of knowledge as justification for whatever baseless reassuring rubbish they've dreamed up.

 

[angelika]

it used to bother me but not anymore. idk why. once you come to accept that it kind of makes things easier on the mind. but then again it seems to kill your creativity

 

[Zethariel]

It is good to ask questions. You'll finally get to a point where no-one before asked your questions. Then, you can invent the answers and call yourself a scientist/get a reward.