On the world cognizability

TL;DR

This paper discusses fundamental limits of human understanding in physics, entropy, and consciousness, suggesting certain phenomena will remain forever beyond our grasp due to intrinsic constraints of observation and theory.

Contribution

It presents a philosophical argument that some phenomena, such as quantum gravity at tiny scales and the nature of consciousness, are inherently unknowable.

Findings

Limits of understanding at Planck scale physics

Entropy's role in the arrow of time is fundamentally unknowable

Consciousness may be governed by quantum states beyond observational access

Abstract

The paper gives a few examples of the phenomena that will never be understood by the mankind. The first example is the physics at the scales of $\sim 10^{-33}$ cm where the gravitation interaction becomes strong, sales at the very beginning of the Big Bang. It argues that the mankind will never establish the laws that controls the events at these scales. Further, it is supposed that the time dependence of the entropy, which determine the direction of the time arrow, originates at the same time scale and, thus, the nature of the time arrow will be never established either. Finally, I conjecture that the brain cells are controlled by quantum computer with the very large (or even infinite) number of degenerate states. An external observation destroys this degeneracy, leading to impossibility to understand the mechanism of the conscience.