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What can we not know?
There are many things that humanity claims to know. We claim to know that 2+2=4, that a triangle has 3 sides, etc. We can go further, and claim that we know what happened a million years ago, or a billion, or even at the first few miliseconds of the Big Bang.
But what can we not know? Is there anything that humanity could not at least claim to know?
We cannot know that Charlemagne actually existed. Or Julius Caesar. Or Jesus Christ. Or even Abraham Lincoln. People claim to have met them, to have written of them, or that they wrote things, but how can we actually, absolutely know that they did exist?
You're asking the question wrong. ChuckHades asked if I know that he exists, and the answer is "no," I cannot be sure that he exists. You, however, are asking me if I believe that "the person that came up with solipsism" exists, and the answer is yes. I believe, likewise, that ChuckHades - or the person behind the user - exists, just as I believe that René Descartes existed, and that Julius Caesar existed, and that Joe Cavalry exists, and that Aleister Crowley existed. I just believe as well that I cannot be sure that they exist, and without absolute, 100% certainty, I do not believe that there can be knowledge.
There are people who claim to come back from the dead. But really im disputing you because you cannot state that he cannot survive to tell. You have no way of knowing that.
So much people have claimed to see Jesus after questionably dying- and they described him as what you would describe every painting or depiction of Jesus.
But unfortunately, they are wrong.
The image of Jesus that you see now is not what Jesus looked like, it was just a depiction- a guess of what the painters during the renaissance thought he looked like. So the image you see of Jesus, is just an "Italian Man," because that's what they saw him as.
Of course, Jesus was born in the middle east, so the closest depiction of Jesus so far is a picture of what an average, primitive middle eastern man would look like, which looks far off in comparison to what we commonly believe he looks like.
Do you have proof that these stories have been debunked? And do you have proof that the depiction of Jesus Christ is false?
Being born in the middle east doesn't mean he will look like the average middle eastern man.
I actually believe that people can come back from the dead. And i do believe that the depiction of Jesus Christ is not what he actually looks like. Im not claiming facts though. You claimed facts and i want to know where you get your information please.
I actually believe that people can come back from the dead.
Gullible people -_-
Do you have proof that people can go back from the dead?
You claimed facts and i want to know where you get your information please.
Paintings of Jesus are simply artists' conceptions and nothing more. However they have tricked the minds of many into thinking they “know” Jesus; just as the pulpits has tricked the masses in believing that there was a Jesus and Mary.
These artists would never have painted Jesus looking Jewish (Semite), fat or as a midget or dwarf in size. Who is to say that those representations could not be just as valid? The church and artists knew that no one would follow an ugly looking leader, so they painted him strikingly handsome – a far fetch from the description of Isaiah 53:2 which Christians love to quote claiming it is about Jesus:
“… he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.” (Isaiah 53:2 King James Version)
So all those people thinking they found Jesus in their toast?- fools. Anyway, why is God playing with toast instead of helping people, and the starving children in Africa?
Do you have proof that these stories have been debunked?
Well, all the stories that contain Jesus, and describe him as the painters thought he looked like are all debunked so far...
how emotions work. Even if it was a chemical reaction in the brain, we could still not explain what sadness is but it is there. There are signs of it, but you understand what it means.
Like, it might be a chemical reaction but is a chemical reaction going to make you sad? Make you feel sad? Same with nerve endings and pain. you know pain is caused by touching nerves but what makes pain pain... it's so frustrating I can't explain.
Here's a question for you: would you find it hard to believe that it is a series of chemical reactions that cause us to feel hunger?
In that case, it has been known for a long time that humans need energy to function and live, that said energy comes from what we consume, the the energy is finite so we need to keep eating and drinking to keep the energy coming in, that when our reserves of energy are starting to run low, we get hungry, and that even as infants we are programmed to respond to hunger by searching out sustenance. Hunger helps us survive, which is what almost ever aspect of our biology is geared to do.
Emotions are a little different, but they still function similarly. In a really basic sense, emotions either feel "good" or "bad". Good emotions generally indicate that our needs are being met. Bad ones, such as sadness emerge in response to stimuli that may have a detrimental effect on our survival.
They aren't perfectly fine-tuned however. Sometimes things that cause happiness may not be in our best interests. Many things that bring out negative emotions aren't typically life-threatening. But taken in conjunction with our ability to reason, to learn from experience, to observe things empirically and other factors, they help us survive (usually) by inclining us towards or away from certain situations.
What more are emotions but the response to stimuli? And why would this have to be anything more than physics and chemistry in action? What really separates sadness from hunger?
The only way to express that knowledge of what is unknown, is to do just that. I'm sure there are many things that we do not know, and the only true unknown is that which we do not know that we do not know. If we can wonder about something that has no real answer, yet it is a question we can form in our minds, then there is already much speculation, and whether justified or not, we can claim that there are answers. We are one race of being, engineered/evolved a certain way, with a certain type of brain. I, personally, believe that there are more than likely many things about this vast universe that we cannot even begin to recognize or comprehend. That is what makes it unknown. To believe for even a moment that our minds have the ability to absorb all of the information that this world has to give us, is nothing short of ignorance fueled by undying egomania.
To deal with your question more directly, is there anything SPECIFICALLY that we cannot claim to know? Absolutely not, for as I've stated, anything that can be speculated, can be answered, or at the very least claimed as such. As far as what we do not know on the grounds of it being unknowable by us, I'd love to imagine that the possibilities are limitless, as with our one type of brain, it most definitely is.
