There are many existential questions that probably cannot be answered inside our frame of reference.
This limit may be:
- Biological, as a serpent cannot perceive many of the attributes of our world (it may even fail to recognize its offspring), no matter how hard it tries.
- A cognitive capacity issue of our current state of evolution. Enhancing our genes and developing larger brains might open new paths and reveal answers.
- Inherent or systemic, meaning that no entity, including future AI systems, can find the answer while being inside the system.
Hitting this limit feels like an honorable effort. It brings a positive feeling of conquest, of finishing a game that could not progress any further. On the other hand, it feels like a quiz, a hard exercise that one was not able to solve, resulting in a negative emotion at the same time.
Is there a method we can use to know that we have hit the limit? Or is it just intuitive knowledge arising from our inability to move forward?
Is there at least a way to grasp and define the nature of this limit, and map out its border or surface?
Is there some logic we can apply that fits the essence of existence but not the phenomenal world?