J. Richard Gott III - What are the Scope and Limits of Science?

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  • Опубліковано 19 жов 2024

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  • @NlHILIST
    @NlHILIST 6 років тому

    Really interesting, thank you. An informed and intelligent interviewer and an exceptional scientist of intellectual honesty and humility together make a welcome change from the some of the arrogance and closed-mindedness that we frequently view on YT. Prof Gott’s reference to Gödel’s incompleteness theorem caught my eye. Our intellectual faculties have great scope, but the price we have to pay for this is a limitation on what we can ever succeed in truly understanding. This prophetic and suggestive statement (in free translation) comes to mind. From the fragments of the Presocratic Xenophanes, it echoes through to us, tantalisingly, from two-and-a-half millennia ago…
    “The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
    All things to us, but in the course of time
    Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
    But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
    Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
    Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
    For even if by chance he were to utter
    The final truth, he would himself not know it:
    For all is but a woven web of guesses.”

  • @mrwansabah
    @mrwansabah 6 років тому

    In the tv. interview he talked about prediction giving the example of Berlin wall, yet I couldn't find it on you tube. Can you kindly post that full interview with him?

  • @fineasfrog
    @fineasfrog Місяць тому

    In saying you are not likely to live at a special time, that thought is true if we stick to the assumptions of probability. However probability has it limitations. What if people are unique then there can be no comparison. Now what is probability regarding the realm of uniqueness? The knowing by comparison has its place yet there are ways in which it can't be used without distorting what is being considered. Our ordinary knowledge would say yes we can compare people but wisdom would say in doing so we are reducing uniqueness to some sort of sameness which can be useful for some purposes yet not useful and even destructive for other purposes. Counting things is so very useful in so many ways that we don't question it's limitations. Read The Dramatic Universe vol.1 By John G Bennett where numbers are shown to be much more than we ordinarily think they are. And among other things in chapter five, Bennett shows how there are eight forms of knowledge with each being of a different quality of knowledge.

  • @HamidSain
    @HamidSain 4 роки тому

    Yes science can definitely make progress eg. Dumping Aristotle for Newton and then “dumping” Newton for Einstein😒

  • @SeanMauer
    @SeanMauer 8 років тому

    What scientists think the "know" today will become what they used to believe when more information comes in.

  • @Tamer_108
    @Tamer_108 8 років тому

    Robert mate, you appear to have a brainworm over the necessarily illusory linguistic construct called 'ultimate reality'. Have you tried any psychedelics? You may find the ways of thinking lateralised by the right-hemisphere are far more conducive to the understanding (rather than articulation) of such problems. Language is rudimentary and labyrinthine.

    • @aquariusNA
      @aquariusNA 8 років тому

      Yeah he really needs to try some high doses of DMT

  • @timmbrockmann959
    @timmbrockmann959 5 років тому

    2:10 I think there is also no universe at all, which is nothingness, but it doesn´t exist by definition - and because nothingness "exists", there also has to be a universe/multiverse... just like a medal can not have just one side, but always two sides.

    • @GeoCoppens
      @GeoCoppens 4 роки тому

      Huhhh??? You like nonsense to be deep!

  • @BradHolkesvig
    @BradHolkesvig 8 років тому

    The scope and limits of science has already been determined and it will end very soon. The Voice of God is the only source for our life experiences within the simulation program that we all exist in. As this program is played out, each one of us created characters ( conscious beings ) who is like a computer processor, gets a visible world to experience. The only way we know anything beyond our own unique world is if we share our experiences with another person. This is how we all learned we're living on a much bigger earth that what the first person on earth believed. However, the earth is only an illusion formed in our consciousness anyway along with all the other visible objects we perceive as being real.

    • @stzn5896
      @stzn5896 8 років тому

      Why would God endow upon us illusions if he is a perfect being?

    • @BradHolkesvig
      @BradHolkesvig 8 років тому

      Steen Langerhuizen
      He learned how to created a computer simulation with characters who believe they are real. That's how perfectly capable our Creator is of creating simulations. We do not know who our Creator is other than His Voice that He uses in His program to connect with some of His characters to teach us who we are and how we were created. I happen to be the last character called a saint to testify to every word the Voice of God put in my mind until I learned that I was the Voice of God.
      I can give you all kinds of information to help you understand how you were created but you have to listen carefully. It might take hundreds of hours before you can totally understand it but I have met a few believers who understood it right away. They already had strong ideas that we were living in a computer generated simulation and if they were chosen to believe Me, the Voice of God, and that they get all their thoughts and world experiences from Me, then they get 100% of what I know to be true.

    • @BradHolkesvig
      @BradHolkesvig 8 років тому

      Monty Cantsin
      I can see that you're another closed-minded individual who can't accept something new. People who are influenced by the Beast have a very hard time accepting anything else.

    • @BradHolkesvig
      @BradHolkesvig 8 років тому

      Monty Cantsin
      I'm not here to entertain fools like you. I'm here to deliver knowledge to the chosen ones who listen and learn about how they're created and how they will experience life in the future.

    • @BradHolkesvig
      @BradHolkesvig 8 років тому

      Monty Cantsin
      Chosen believers love to listen to the voice of God but fools like you were made to reject it. The voice of God makes sure I remain busy finding chosen believers to speak to.