Are there phenomena which simple rationality cannot adequately explain?

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Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

in the whole wide world

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I'm sure no one remembers comedian Michael Floorwax

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who?

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Originally Posted by reprise85

Is it conceivable that, at some point, we can really know everything about consciousness? Can all questions be answered, or do answers inevitably lead to more questions (okay that sounds lame, but I hope you get my point)? If we did completely understand consciousness, wouldn't the new way we think about consciousness bring up new questions about the nature of consciousness? Or, to put it another way: How can there be an end game to understanding, when the act of understanding changes how we experience reality?

This is of course a complete hypothetical, because I don't know how experiments on consciousness could not have inherent experimenter bias... but I'm not a scientist.

I would say that answers inevitably lead to more questions. However, saying that we can never know everything is not the same as saying some things are unknowable