Vastness may not be infinite, but the number of questions you can ask about it is, I believe, unlimited. I do not believe we can, even theoretically, get to a point when we know everything and there is nothing left to know, where we cannot possibly ask any further questions.
A single leaf is finite, but I doubt it is possible even to know everything about a single leaf. Does it have consciousness? Does it have language, and if so what language? Why is this individual, particular leaf shaped the way it is when no other leaf is shaped exactly the same way? Or is some other leaf shaped exactly the same way? Does there exist in this or some other universe some other leaf shaped exactly the same as this one? If so, why? if not, why not? And then once those questions are asked, the answers will themselves contain further questions. And the answers to those question will themselves contain further questions.
Your statement was "We will know the why and how behind everything if our race survives long enough." It's an opinion not open to proof, but I don't believe it. I believe that as long as mankind lives, he will always have another question to ask. |
