Do you think humanity will ever know everything?

In the last few centuries, humanity has made strides that before seemed impossible. I really think it's amazing that we managed to discover atoms, create a plausible theory to how humans got to where they are, and developed technologies such as the Internet and modern medicine within the last hundred years or so. But, do you think humans will ever reach a point where there's simply nothing left to learn? Do you think we'll ever reach a point where we literally know everything there is to know about existence, the universe, atoms, and anything in between? Or do you think that's simply impossible?

No.

No, simply put.

We'll be wiped out before then

We'll be wiped out before then

RobboElRobbo

As we learn more, we pretty much come up with even more questions, because now we can ask about things we wouldn't think to before. So basically the amount of knowledge to be attained is always expanding. There's no possible way to catch up to it.UCF_Knight

[QUOTE="UCF_Knight"]As we learn more, we pretty much come up with even more questions, because now we can ask about things we wouldn't think to before. So basically the amount of knowledge to be attained is always expanding. There's no possible way to catch up to it.yabbicoke

No, what will humanity do then? There would be no point to exist. Nothing would move forward, because if we were to know everything, then that means humanity would posses perfect technology at 100% (maybe even more %) efficiency. There would be no way to improve anything, since everything would be known. Anything and everything would have been done.

I'd hate to post this right before I head off to bed, but many members of my religion, including myself, believe that we will learn exponential amounts of information during the 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ after his second coming. After we are judged we will have all eternity to learn even more, so yes, I believe humanity will one day know everything. I'm Mormon if anyone is wondering what religion could believe such crazy things.

[QUOTE="UCF_Knight"]As we learn more, we pretty much come up with even more questions, because now we can ask about things we wouldn't think to before. So basically the amount of knowledge to be attained is always expanding. There's no possible way to catch up to it.yabbicoke

No, what will humanity do then? There would be no point to exist. Nothing would move forward, because if we were to know everything, then that means humanity would posses perfect technology at 100% (maybe even more %) efficiency. There would be no way to improve anything, since everything would be known. Anything and everything would have been done.

carrot-cake

Sounds like you just described the setting for a book you're about to write.

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No, what will humanity do then? There would be no point to exist. Nothing would move forward, because if we were to know everything, then that means humanity would posses perfect technology at 100% (maybe even more %) efficiency. There would be no way to improve anything, since everything would be known. Anything and everything would have been done.

Baconbits2004

Sounds like you just described the setting for a book you're about to write.

No, I do not think that it possible that humanity will be capable of knowing everything. Granted, we will know a hell of a lot more than we do now.

Not even half of it.

Who else instantly though of this upon finding the topic?

As long as it took humanity to get where we are now, we still hardly know anything. It may seem like a lot to us, but it's still VERY far from knowing everything. I'd have to go with no on this one.

[QUOTE="UCF_Knight"]As we learn more, we pretty much come up with even more questions, because now we can ask about things we wouldn't think to before. So basically the amount of knowledge to be attained is always expanding. There's no possible way to catch up to it.yabbicoke

Dude...people have died alone, their last words being heard by no one but themselves.

People's houses have caught on fire, and then they died in the fire while their life journals also burned up in the flames.

That is lost knowledge, which can never be recovered. And as long as we can present a SINGLE instance of knowledge being forever lost, then it is necessarily 100% impossible for humans to know EVERYTHING.

Even if we traverse the stars and master warp light speed (or...whatever sci-fi mumbo jumbo we choose to invoke) and manage to travel between galaxies in a matter of seconds, that doesn't change the fact that entire worlds have been extinguished before we ever even knew they existed. If there was anyone living on those worlds, then the details of their physiology and culture and history is almost certainly lost, with absolutely no way to be retrieved.

As long as it took humanity to get where we are now, we still hardly know anything. It may seem like a lot to us, but it's still VERY far from knowing everything. I'd have to go with no on this one.

shoot-first

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As long as it took humanity to get where we are now, we still hardly know anything. It may seem like a lot to us, but it's still VERY far from knowing everything. I'd have to go with no on this one.

yabbicoke

Because humans are the masters of destruction. We will most likely destroy ourselves before being able to do so.

[QUOTE="shoot-first"]

As long as it took humanity to get where we are now, we still hardly know anything. It may seem like a lot to us, but it's still VERY far from knowing everything. I'd have to go with no on this one.

yabbicoke

It doesn't matter how long humanity will live, knowledge has ALREADY been lost.

And if that's the case, then it is already fundamentally impossible for humanity to EVER know EVERYTHING.

That depends entirely on how lucky we are.

Sure, unless humanity kill each other first. That or an asteroid snuffs out all life on the planet.

No...because the Protoss will wipe us out by then:(

In all seriousness though, we lack the evolutionary capacities to comprehend 'everything'. Humans were never intended to become omniscient...

This is a very interesting topic though.

We'll be wiped out before then

It is always possible. But then again, things are always changing, so technically, as soon as we know "everything" it changes and we have to learn more.

No.

Ultrabeatdown55

No, simply put.

SgtKevali

nope.Allicrombie

Possibly, but we'd probably all die before that happens.

[QUOTE="yabbicoke"][QUOTE="RobboElRobbo"]

We'll be wiped out before then

max-Emadness

Because a billion years isn't even long enough for us to see everything there is to see and learn about in the cosmos. And by that time, Earth will no longer be a living planet as the Sun begins it's dying process.

No-- not even in the context of outer space. It's far too big to observe and study it all.