Claiming we may never fully understand phenomena differs from claiming they can never be explained physically, and the explanatory gap is narrowing daily.
Evidence
Mysterianism lite (Nature Neuroscience)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Life is full of unfathomable mysteries that elude understanding. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 374; We exist neither in closed horizons nor within a horizon that is unique; we must reject both the assumption of absolute knowledge and the assumption of objectivity. — Fusion of horizons; Human knowledge fails to answer life’s fundamental questions. — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 64 (+2 more)
Related
- Humans, like every other animal, are not smart enough to understand all of nature’s laws, and unknowable unknowns may vastly exceed what we can ever know. (similarity 0.82)
- We exist neither in closed horizons nor within a horizon that is unique; we must reject both the assumption of absolute knowledge and the assumption of objectivity. (similarity 0.82)
- The pursuit of understanding is an end in itself, and the horizon of knowledge always eludes us. (similarity 0.80)
- Humans claim understanding only by tracing phenomena back to something inexplicable (similarity 0.80)
- New mysterianism proposes that the hard problem of consciousness cannot be resolved by humans. (similarity 0.79)
- Colin McGinn argues consciousness is a mystery that human intelligence will never unravel, as the hard problem of qualia cannot be resolved by humans. (similarity 0.78)
- Before modern science, the world was unfathomable and inexplicable, but science has shown that nature is logical and comprehensible. (similarity 0.78)
- Science has failed to adequately answer how human consciousness developed or what it actually is. (similarity 0.78)