Imagine this - you know everything there is to know. Every scrap of knowledge that can ever be discovered. Every possible use of any possible invention. You will never need to wonder about anything ever again.
What will happen to you? What do you do now?
((Sounds quite impossible for the human mind. And that its easy to say that there will always be more beyond what we discover. But let us discuss this with out those limits to start with)).
I personally think this would leave me with no purpose in life - it would drive me mad.
What would happen to you?
How do you think this would effect the human race?
I might say that we will never come to achieve “all” knowledge. And if we do, then what is there to be feared from being doomed. Having truly achieved all knowledge, we will thus be saved.
Oop, perhaps you were saying if all of us achieved all knowledge. In that case, who could we teach.
But the last still holds – maybe. The fact is that we couldn’t achieve all knowledge, since whatever we do, we have no idea of how it would affect us. All knowledge is “All” knowledge and that’s a relative word – like beauty and truth and freedom. It is only in hindsight that we can truly really “know” this and that – so the bottom line is
We must be careful of becoming doomed, right Mr. Doom?
And if we truly did achieve all knowledge, perhaps there would be another closing of the Gates of Eden. And we would begin again and there would be struggle and unhappiness and in that would our contentment be.
There is a reason why in our humble beginnings we were in the veil of ignorance. Better not to know than to know.
Of course the only reason why we try to know anything is so that we may gain power over one another not because there is some objective reason for us to know anything at all.
There is no objective decree that we must know anything at all. We brought the agony of knowing all onto ourselves largely because knowing helps us repel others of our own species amongst our life interests.
here’s a crazy thought then. prehaps when (if ever) we have achieved all knowledge then we will find something else to work toward. something higher and so far away from our current human understanding.
but to imagine that this ‘thing’ is impossible, right? like trying to imagine a colour you never seen before.
Anyway, some of the greatest minds on this forum mind-melded, and came up with the conclusion:
We can know everything and this proves that we are free.
End of conversation.
Of course how this is possible when everything, that can be known, is constantly changing and how we can know what we are participating within, is beyond me.
But why argue.
It’s a perspective and so no less viable than any other. Let’s agree to disagree and part happy friends.
Aren’t we here to be happy and to avoid suffering?
