Daniel Whiteson

That would be pretty disappointing.

It would be.

Because if aliens show up, they've clearly...

solved, or at least most of it, quantum mechanics, is it possible we're just not capable of understanding it?

We're just not wired for it.

It's possible, right?

We don't know, frankly, why we can understand so much.

Our minds evolved in a very different scenario than we live in today, right?

They evolved to keep us warm, to make friends, to stay fed in a certain environment, and nobody knows for sure exactly why we developed intelligence and how it's useful in these great theories, and I'm not an expert in them, but I'm sure that thinking about 11-dimensional space and doing crazy integrals over those spaces was not essential for survival 2,000 years ago.

Yet here we are doing crazy mathematics that are essential for understanding the universe,

Why are we capable of that?

What is it about that experience, what evolutionary bottleneck produced this mind which could solve that problem to survive and yet also had this capability?

Nobody knows the answer to that.

but it suggests that there may be a limit, right?

Because our minds come out of some sort of structure of, you know, the neurons.

And again, I'm not a neurologist or anything, but we think that, you know, evolution controls our intellectual capacity and therefore we're a product of these, this intellectual evolution and, and there should be a limit to it somehow.

I mean, we see limits in other creatures, um,

I love my dog.

It's very smart.

I'm impressed by it.