In order to know anything I would have to know everything, because there could always be unknown facts out there that would radically alter what I think I know.
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What counts more than absolute truth is an ability to recover from error, like a self driving car that is veering slightly onto the road side, and immediately correcting for the error avoiding a crash.
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Well, of course absolute truth would have been nicer, so we'd never veer. But in the face of the difficulty to obtain it, you are correct. It is a shame that governments are usually designed with more with truth implementation in mind than with error correction.
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And also math is what limits an hypothetical omnipotent being: it couldn't change which numbers are prime, for example. It couldn't change the truth. That's why an omnipotent being can't exist.
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From an observer perspective, anything that can change all representations of the observer is indistinguishable from omnipotence. Even if omnipotence was possible, there could be no evidence for it, so it was never in the class of suitable encodings for reality to begin with.
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At the same time we are trapped in the very same framework and since animals and other organisms have there own frameworks we can't access absolute truth
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