Timeline for Eventually, can the human race achieve omniscience?
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| Jan 10, 2019 at 5:26 | comment | added | Ton Day | This answer is well-written, but I had to downvote. See my answer below. This is a very complex question, but a bunch of math geeks (way way smarter than me) spent a long time tackling it awhile back. They pretty definitively answered it: No, you can't. | |
| Aug 18, 2016 at 16:38 | vote | accept | Lord Farquaad | ||
| Aug 18, 2016 at 16:34 | comment | added | A Simmons | I agree that that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and its ilk are much of a barrier to this kind of omniscience; the statespace of quantum systems is not a symplectic manifold and particles just simply do not have defined (or hidden) positions and momenta. Regardless of your particular favoured interpretation of QM, any omniscience would have an operational rather than ontological flavour. | |
| Aug 18, 2016 at 8:45 | comment | added | Chinu | Once you are aware of everything, within your space-time and all of science, why would make any technological advancements ? Sure there can be a lot of technological implementations but that there is no use in making it as you already know everything possible combination and its outcome. If everything is knowable. You would be very aware of how your consciousness works. And I believe that a sufficiently intelligent sentient being would simply not buy into the illusion of life. Thus no desires, needs or even curiosity. Imagine some kind hyper intelligent monk. | |
| Aug 18, 2016 at 8:39 | comment | added | Donald Hobson | How does this explain the fermi paradox? | |
| Aug 18, 2016 at 7:35 | history | answered | Chinu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |