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Chris Aldon
Englewood, FL
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Is knowledge finite?

If the universe is finitely small and finitely massive, then knowledge of the universe has a hard limit.

If the universe is infinite in either direction but to understand wholly we would need to break current laws of physics then we have a soft limit.

Is there any scenario where knowledge is infinite, or do we always have a limit on what we can know.

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Jun 11 2011: I don't think we have the knowledge to know if knowledge is finite, Chris.
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  Jun 14 2011: we certainly don't
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  Jun 14 2011: but we have the knowledge to know we need new ways of thinking, especially a greater tolerance for uncertainty and the unknowable to move forward toward what is possible to know.

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