Are There Limits to What We Can Know About the Physical World?

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It's possible, you coul get all the way up even to like a biped or primate like a homorectus, or even an eratal, and they never develop technological communication devices or spaceships. D they're just on planets out there, and we just can'totknow about them, because we can't communicate with themy We're assuming that if there's life evolves anywhere else, it'll follow the same paths as it has on earth. But I strongly suspect that's not going to be ever the case. It might be that at some point our our brains can only think things throughto to such a level of complexity and not beyond there. Maybe we

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