This-essay is a8512211.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %BEING SURE OF THE IMPOSSIBLE 851221 How can we tell what is essentially beyond human understanding, prediction and control? Human understanding, prediction and control has ventured into the realms of the unimaginable small, fast, large, complex, ancient, etc. Compared to previous human imagination it would seem that reality can always venture without limit. Many intelligent people have been wrong in predicting the limits of human venture. Why have they been wrong? Upon what wrong premises did they base their wrong predictions? Are there correct premises upon which correct predictions of the limits of human venture might be made. Is it possible to correctly predict the limits to human understanding, prediction and control? Or is it forever impossible to predict and understand the limits to human venture? We may gain insight by considering the following contexts, questions, issues: How can we know what is happening inside a black hole when we are outside it? Can we understand, predict and control processes inside a black hole when we are outside it? Will it ever be possible to do so? What caused the Big Bang which occurred at the beginning of the Universe? Will the Universe end in a Big Crunch? If so, how can we possibly understand, predict and control what will happen after the Big Crunch? Can we make such advances that we will succeed in creating a knowledge system which will include total self- knowledge by the system of all aspects of the system and its effects upon humans who created and are part of the system? Will we ever be able to have perfect and total self-understanding, prediction and control? On a more mundane level: Will we ever be able to control the motions of stars and galaxies. Will we be able to extend the lives of stars so that they do not die in the catastrophic ways that they normally die? Will we be able to modify the process of evolution of star clusters, of galaxies and galactic clusters? Will we be able to control the overall evolution of the structure of the universe? If any of these images are images of that which is utterly impossible, upon what basis can we be sure that what we believe to be impossible is really impossible? Will it be impossible to be sure of what is impossible? Do the answers to these questions make any difference? Can we be sure? How? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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