Re:The Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable
by marstall on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @11:40AM
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than most of our brains represent, perhaps ... but clearly there are people who see things others don't ... give them the ability to see at these scales, and enough explanatory skills, and perhaps it will become something even a child can understand.
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Re:The Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable
by criddell on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @03:45PM
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A dog is never going to understand Fourier Transforms. I expect there are concepts that our brains will never understand as well.
Re:The Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable
by brap on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:32PM
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Indeed, it’s an uncomfortable idea but maybe someday we’ll have to accept it. That we don’t know, we’ll never know, we can’t know. I wonder if we’ll be able to prove that we can’t know something. Or prove that we can’t prove it.
Re:The Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable
by Koshkin on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @11:21PM
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Or, alternatively, the human brain, unlike dog’s, has the capability to learn (and eventually understand) that may already exceed what is needed to understand all there is to understand.
Re:The Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable
by quickthrower2 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @01:34AM
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Brains. One person may not be able to understand it might take teams.