Erik Hoel on Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
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Our Growing Knowledge of the Universe and the Troublesome Brain
Our knowledge of the universe has grown continually over the last 500 years, but the least understood part is our own brain. This is the idea of scientific incompleteness, first argued by F.A. Hayek in 1952. Hayek believed that the mind, being a classifying machine, can never fully explain another mind of equal complexity. This concept is deeply troubling, as the very system trying to understand the universe needs to include itself in the calculation.
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