@nimbrayan
The universe may be fundamentally incomprehensible to human minds.Our cognition evolved for survival on a small blue planet: pattern-seeking, causality, discrete objects, linear time. But reality at quantum, cosmic, and informational levels routinely violates these intuitions—non-locality, superposition, emergent spacetime, the measurement problem, the nature of consciousness, why there are mathematical laws at all.We can build ever more precise models and equations that predict outcomes spectacularly well, yet the deepest “why” questions (Why these constants? Why anything rather than nothing? What is qualia made of?) appear to lie beyond the grasp of any finite, embodied, evolved intelligence.The most honest position might be: the universe is intelligible up to a point, but its ultimate nature is likely inaccessible to creatures like us—forever.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_of_reason
https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03489
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