Can one mind hold all knowledge?
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Replying to @speakerjohnash
One human mind or one "mind" as an abstract thing, that could be arbitrarily large & complex? In any case, my answer seems to be "no" many times over. Challenges relating to: - organizing it all - contradictory perspectives - paradox of knowing "what it's like to not know"
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @speakerjohnash
That appears to be the trivial answer strategy. But fundamentally, why not?
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Self reference.
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Self reference constitutes the observer, but I think that reference to the actual implementation is not possible. You cannot get out of the model.
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I think you're contradicting yourself with the phrase "reference to the actual implementation," but regardless, you seem to agree with me that knowing everything is impossible.
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No, I don't know that it is impossible to know everything there is to know.
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"After long consideration, Joscha Bach will come to the conclusion that the quoted statement in this tweet is false, and will never change his mind after that." Someone else might know whether that is true or false, but you don't, and never will.
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I know that.
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