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Erik Hoel on Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science

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The Limitations of Scientific Progress and the Mystery of the Human Brain

Our knowledge of the universe has grown continually in the last 500 years/nWe have made progress in various fields like cancer research, geology, and economics/nDespite our increasing knowledge, the human brain remains the least understood part of the universe/nThe idea of scientific incompleteness suggests that there are fundamental aspects of the universe that cannot be fully known or explained by science/nFriedrich Hayek argued that the mind can never fully understand another mind of the same complexity

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