With perfect knowledge there would be no mystery left about the real world. But that is not what “sense of wonder and mystery” refers to. It describes an emotion, not a state of knowledge. There’s no reason for it to die.
Nicely said. I’d like to add that perfect knowledge can only be of the knowable. The non-knowable is irreducibly wondrous and mysterious. The ultimate mystery, why there is something rather than nothing, seems unknowable.
There’s plenty of inherently unknowable things around. For instance, almost all real numbers are uncomputable and even undefinable in any given formal language.
With perfect knowledge there would be no mystery left about the real world. But that is not what “sense of wonder and mystery” refers to. It describes an emotion, not a state of knowledge. There’s no reason for it to die.
Nicely said. I’d like to add that perfect knowledge can only be of the knowable. The non-knowable is irreducibly wondrous and mysterious. The ultimate mystery, why there is something rather than nothing, seems unknowable.
There’s plenty of inherently unknowable things around. For instance, almost all real numbers are uncomputable and even undefinable in any given formal language.