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Originally Posted by Ilya
So suppose there are physical or mathematical notions that no human being is capable of grasping any more than gorilla could grasp laws of electromagnetism. And suppose there is a being which CAN grasp them, yet can not explain them to us no matter how hard it tries, because we simply lack brain structures for it. What would we call such being?
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That's an interesting notion that I have pondered many a sleepless night. Clearly, there are things which boggle the human mind, well, at least mine. If you follow the chain if regression to the point of origin, you arrive at one of two conclusions.
Either the universe is infinite and has always existed, with no beginning and no end (I'm not just talking about our observable universe, but an overarching manifold) or it came into being at some point from absolute nothingness. Both concepts boggle the (human) mind. How can something always exist without having a beginning and a (possible) end - infinity? How can something come from absolute nothingness (and by nothing, I mean no space-time, no virtual quantum particles - absolute nothingness).
I sure as heck can't wrap my mind around those concepts, even though I can talk about them, but could an even more intelligent being be able to make more sense of these things? It's hard to imagine...