Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-02-11]: US scientists calculated the total "storage capacity" of the world electronic media to about 300 billion GigaByte [source:
web news]. In an era where the dominant dogma wants everything to be "measurable", few even care to think what are the implications of such measurements. The limitations of the total "calculation capacity", not at a human but at a universal level, actually dictate the limitations to the "measurability" of things. If the total bytes the atoms in the universe can hold is limited, then what does this mean for the limits of our knowledge? Can we calculate something with accuracy greater than the total number of bytes available in the whole Universe? If scientists *believe* that we can understand everything, then maybe they have to stop *believing* that everything is measurable. Because the calculator called "Universe" cannot calculate everything...
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