if the human mind cannot cross the barrier of its finitude, why do humans claim to know beyond the infinite?

Question

by infinite, i mean trascendental knowlede such the purpose of humankind, meaning of life, stating that there's life after death , having "the answer" ,and so on, cuz even if there were a higher source of knowledge we don't have access to it

by infinite, i mean trascendental knowlede such the purpose of humankind, meaning of life, stating that there's life after death , having "the answer" ,and so on, cuz even if there were a higher source of knowledge we wouldn't have access to it since we are trapped into space in time

Answer 1

The conscious mind may not be able to cross the barrier of the finite, but the subconscious mind, under certain conditions, may very well reach forward into the infinite. Nonetheless, since there are no tangible ways of proving this theory, whatever knowledge humans claim to know beyond the infinite must only be considered as speculation.

Answer 2

If there is an infinite person, and that person chooses to communicate, it is then possible for us to know things that we could not otherwise have known.

This principle also holds true on the finite level. I might GUESS, or DEDUCE, from your avatar-name, that you are interested in sex (x and y chromosomes) or in mathematics (x and y coordinates) but only if you choose to REVEAL YOURSELF to me can I know that you are actually interested in cryptograms (x in place of y).

The question becomes one of deciding, 'Are you really communicating with me, or am I imagining it...?' And if I speak to others, claiming to have communicated with you, do other people have the right to inform me, "You're mentally deranged! There is no such person!"

We can determine whether there was true communication going on by checking the information you give me, to see whether it was accurate and correct, and whether I could have gained that information in any other way, without being consciously aware of knowing it. If it is true knowledge, truly gained from an outside source, I can confidently say that you really exist.

In this way, we can see that the terms finite and infinite are really no more of a barrier to knowledge than the terms known and unknown. Infinite does not necessarily imply unknowable.

Answer 3

in order to understand my answer you have to believe that there is a Creator because just as a house has a builder and a car has a manufacturer and everything has a source so too we as human being had a beginning. having said all that humans only claim to do or know those things it is not the truth. Persons tend to believe what ever they will to believe and one can believe a lie if he wants to. ( Just as we can fool ourselves into believing thing are good when are truly are not). But i can give u my thought on it I believe that there are creatures that are supernatural and unseen to us that know the beginning of our human race and has insight to all history of the world and more so they can tell these ones things about the human race true or false for one reason or the next and use them to confuse us into believing lies

Answer 4

Beside limited mind we are a Consciousness... we think (mind thinks for you) we do not have an access, we do...access to ourselves,unlimited ourselves, for we are that consciousness, which looking for itself all over deceived by mind, being not aware of itself , but depended of mind interpretations . Mind is only a tool for consciousness to create. Instead mind taking over Boss who does not know that he is is a Boss. The rock neglected by builders......MIND IS NOT SUPPOSE TO BE CONSCIOUS, WE MADE IT CONSCIOUS, NOT KNOWING WHO WE ARE. It is well known now that mind affect body, emotions, feelings, it may well shape body too. Through confusion of a Boss? In that case consciousness may well be a creator of a mind, its tool. Lets say, Grand Consciousness.It might well be that which we call God... But I ve heard somewhere that we are considered to be fallen..Separated from Grand One and fallen.Fallen where? Into our own creation, mind, and it takes over. We continue to fall..Here on Earth we have a lot of apparent creations which successfully taking over us, dictating its will and we are obediently serving them...There would be much more on that, but, who cares??? Who can believe to this??? It is weird in comparition of general stream of beliefs.
If we will make computer our creations conscious of itself then science-fiction horror will become true. Besides, our own sh*it is not fictional...yet we successfully transferring it into our creations.

Answer 5

Because they dont agree with your assumption that human mind can not go beyond a point

Answer 6

Humans have healthy imaginations. We cannot cross the boundary but we can still look across it.

Answer 7

Finitude? I actually learned something on YA today!

Anyway...some...including myself...don't.

Answer 8

I never said I did, dude!

Answer 9

Even if we can't know, we can certainly have our guesses.

Answer 10

What jackass ever made that claim?