If an infintely intelligent being had access to the internet, do you think it could know everything?

Question

By everything, i mean every single piece of information that we as humans (collectively or individually) know as well stuff we dont know but exists within the confines of our universe...
weird question huh....

Answer 1

An infinitely intelligent Being doesn't need internet to know everything!
It knows everything already!
We will loose our knowledge when the electricity falls out at one time.
But that Being would still know everything.
Because It depends on nothing else, but itself.

Answer 2

Yes, it's a weird question.

First of all, you're talking apples, oranges and bananas. "Intelligence" is the SPEED your mind works at ("processes" knowledge); the Internet reference is about the volume of "knowledge".

Secondly, how could 'what is unknown' be absorbed, even by an infinitely fast mind? To determine what is unknown, even the fastest brain would have to APPROXIMATE the total volume of ALL knowledge, absorb and subtract the known volume of knowledge, then guess at 'what is unknown' volume.

Thirdly, while the infintely intelligent being was doing all that, we were still busy creating / discovering more 'known knowledge', which may in fact contradict what the being assumed to be part of 'total known knowledge'.

So much for the BS. Now, if you are simply making a statement about the massive volume of information on the internet, I say "you ain't seen nothin' yet". Of the world's population, less than 1/2% are computer literate. Of that literate number, only 80% are internet fluent. Of the internet fluent number, only 2% put their knowledge out there while the other 98% have NOT contributed their knowledge out to the internet yet. And, of those that have contributed, they have only set 1% of what they know out there, at best.

So, if you run that all out, less than 0.0000008% of all known human knowledge is out there, AT BEST.

To contain all known human knowledge, the internet would have to be 12,500,000 times larger than it is. Then, of course there's that pesky 'unknown knowledge' thing.

Weird answer, huh?
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Answer 3

Dear me, Internet is a huge basket so full of junk together with knowledge and information that the infinite intelligence too could get confused - or perhaps enlightened that both are one and the same.

But the assumption is wrong here. Infinite intelligence won't even look at Internet - it is for us dull heads!!

Answer 4

Mr. or Mrs.InfinetlyIntelligent would have to sort out through conflicting data, since not everything on the net is reliable or complete, and still one could venture to say that there is just certain information that may have escaped entering the realm of the meta-verse, like say, how to make *your* grandma's favorite cookie. Or what flavor toothpaste Einstien preferred. I digress.
Then again, in taking in all the possible data, be it deemed by itself "important" or "not important" wouldn't matter since I would suppose an entity a la one-smart-cookie would be able to take it all to understand key things about human nature, as well as everything else by having the information on the basics. Introduce the idea of cookies and i'm sure it would figure out what it needs to make them.

Answer 5

not everything that I know is on the internet - and this must hold true for many people and specialist fields - so no - even sucking up the entire contents of the internet would not give all human knowledge - and the poor thing would have to be infinitely wise to sort the detrimus from the meaningful - the rubbish from the truth, that is.

Answer 6

nope, I absolutely don't think so....



you see not even all the binary information in the cyberspace can equal the vast mysteries of the cosmos...


even just here on earth....

there are still things things that we don't know about our own planet so how can the internet know about everything when the ones who keeps the internet running have limited knowledge of their own dominion.

Answer 7

an infinitely intelligent being would probably look at the internet for an infinitely short period of time before becoming so infinitely bored and/or depressed with human beings and our infinitely wasted potential that he or she would commit suicide simply to get away from us.

Answer 8

No. I think it's impossible for it to know everything. I mean, each tiny bit of info hidden in the corners of our minds? It seems unlikely.

Then again, ya never know.

Answer 9

An "infinitely intelligent" being, like E.T. perhaps, would'nt need the internet !!!!!!

Answer 10

of cause not. dont u heard that ppl are not 100 percent clever even Albert is not 100percent clever