Can man attain full knowledge?

Question

Can man attain full knowledge?

Answer 1

Even if you could retain and integrate all the knowledge of the human race now and throughout all of past history, you could not attain full knowledge.

Let's try to define your term: Full knowledge would have to be all that is known and knowable in the past, present and future. How could you even know if you had done that? Is knowledge infinite or limited?

In addition, there is the question of the origin of the Universe, Life, Conciousness and Everything. I don't think it's possible to know how or why the Universe started or what was here when there was NOTHING here.

So assuming that full knowledge were knowable, what kind of entity would be able to encompass it?

I think that entity would have to be God, however you define it.

Answer 2

no ....  the capacity of the human nervous system is limited

to a region of 'knowledge' which is pretty impressive in scope, but it can  hardly be callled "full knowledge".

(IMHO)

can a mosquito know fully the workings of the real number

system and the distribution of prime numbers?

or the set of platonic solids? or non-euclidean geometry?

or the stirrings of the heart seeing the rising of the sun on a

cloudy winter morning?

If a mosquito has limitations,  (and it likely cannot conceive of

these limitations either..)  is the human being immune from

the constraints of the physical world and 5 or 6 or 7 sensory

channels?

just my opinion (again), but tho it might be tempting to claim

omniscient vision of the Universe's wonders, I feel that it's

slightly delusional.

still, some medical, cartetaking facilities house people who

know more than I do ...

Answer 3

I don't believe anyone can attain full knowledge; there is just too much in the world to know.

Answer 4

No, that's one of the special things about human beings: we strive to attain unattainable goals with full knowledge of the fact that these goals are unattainable.  In the process, we learn about ourselves and oftentimes make those around us better.