Who Possesses Complete Knowledge?
The Problem of Human Limitations in Acquiring Complete Knowledge
Jun 4, 2007
Is such a thing as complete knowledge accessible?
From what we see, where we constantly seek out new and different knowledge to what we already have, the obvious answer is that we haven't yet accessed complete knowledge. So follows the question: Why haven't we achieved complete knowledge in anything (yet)?
It is because of the way we are designed. We are designed in such a way that we receive information from an undefined external source through our five senses. Our five senses limit this information within the ranges that they are designed to receive. This limited amount of information gets passed over to our mind, where it is processed, and the mind further limits the information it receives from the senses, bringing us a picture that we call "our world" or "our reality."
Scientists have discovered that our five senses receive some fifty million bits of information per second, but our mind processes just fifty of these per second; and this information is processed according to what the mind determines to be the most self-serving information.
Thus, we have never attained complete knowledge in anything because we are designed as self-serving information receivers. It is inherent in this design from the outset (i.e. from the initial limiting of information that occurs when our five senses receive information) that we can never attain complete knowledge-the complete amount of information that exists outside our five senses.
People who have attained complete knowledge would thus have to be people who have attained additional senses, ones capable of receiving the total amount of information outside our five senses.
The question then is, is there such a method? Is there a method that allows us to develop an additional sense, and with this sense, perceive a wider, more complete reality than the one we sense through our five senses?
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