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Old 09-24-2017, 05:42 PM   #1
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Is there a limit to what humans can create through technology and science?

I have just recently started thinking about this question. I still haven't arrived on an answer. What are your thought?
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Old 09-24-2017, 05:54 PM   #2
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Yes, there are plenty of limits.

Humans can't create or destroy matter, only change it into a different form.

Can't create immaterial entities like our minds. No Artificial intelligence has free will and is purely physical.

Basically we cannot defy the laws of physics and/or use technology and science to do something illogical like create a square circle.

And most of all, no amount of technology and science can't give us a meaningful and fufilling life. People vainly look for purpose in science when there is none.

Hope you find the answer
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Old 09-24-2017, 06:00 PM   #3
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In the present we can always find limitations. But with enough time could anything be possibly? I think 3D printing advances with food is a stepping stone to actual food replicators. And I've seen news stories about Science working on transporters.
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Old 09-24-2017, 06:27 PM   #4
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In the present we can always find limitations. But with enough time could anything be possibly? I think 3D printing advances with food is a stepping stone to actual food replicators. And I've seen news stories about Science working on transporters.
Under current science, I am absolutely sure that not Everything will be possible like creating matter and minds etc.

The moment people can do that, science will have to adjust radically as it is not absolute truth by definition and always changing.

The one key thing to Remember is that no matter how accurate it is, science is always a model of a natural phenomena, not the phenomena itself.

So does the method, model and body of knowledge we collectively and currently know as "science" ever be able to do something that is outside of its realm? Absolutely not but we might call to choose a potential new method "science", if we find that it can do things that current science cannot.
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Old 09-24-2017, 06:37 PM   #5
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Old 09-24-2017, 06:38 PM   #6
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Under current science, I am absolutely sure that not Everything will be possible like creating matter and minds etc.
Not certain what you mean but when I google creating matter articles show up stating science can turn light into matter.
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Not certain what you mean but when I google creating matter articles show up stating science can turn light into matter.
The Law of Conservation in science states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted.

Light is energy, it can theoretically be converted to matter, but it you need to have pre existing light to do so, and can't create Matter out of nothing.
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Peace on earth.
You raise a good question. Is war (or human conflict) inevitable? Seems like that could be a completely new thread.
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The Law of Conservation in science states that energy/matter cannot be created or destroyed, only converted.

Light is energy, it can theoretically be converted to matter, but it you need to have pre existing light to do so, and can't create Matter out of nothing.
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I guess science also can't prevent people from making the ever present political threads on the drome
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Old 09-24-2017, 07:05 PM   #11
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I don't think humans can ever get close to creating a shrink ray.

I also think that 4D technology is impossible to build.
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Old 09-24-2017, 07:08 PM   #12
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I guess science also can't prevent people from making the ever present political threads on the drome
Or posts quickly politicizing an innocent thread meant to be no more than fun talk about lasers and teleportation. It will eventually happen.
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Old 09-24-2017, 11:27 PM   #13
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I think technology can evolve to do almost anything. It just takes a long time for it to get better. So I believe teleportation will be possible eventually.

I think we probably have a small understanding of how powerful technology could be.

People think we live in a really high tech world but if you look at everything around us a lot of things are still, at basics, the same as they were 80-100 years ago. They've just gotten smaller and more efficent.

Like cars operate much better but are still just 4 wheels on a platform and an engine. Laptops/PCs are smaller and faster but there's nothing revolutionary about the machines themselves without the internet.

Things we see in movies have only recently become possible like sophisticated AI, virtual reality and 3D printing but they're all still in their infancy.

Medicine is one of the things that's probably improved the best since most illness or injury can be treated and surgery is not medieval trial and error.
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Old 09-24-2017, 11:33 PM   #14
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I believe that on the current trajectory, any kind of "cool!" technology, even anything of a meaningful spacefaring sort, will not see the light of day before all resources have to be poured into solving the problems we're allowing to proliferate now.
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Transferring images from the mind to paper/computer...as much as I wish it.
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Old 09-25-2017, 12:06 AM   #16
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Transferring images from the mind to paper/computer...as much as I wish it.
Even I'd become an artist if that as possible
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Old 09-25-2017, 08:41 AM   #17
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I used to think teleportation would be cool...and then I saw the 1986 remake of The Fly.

Whatever achievements we might make with technology are limited by our capacity to use those devices safely and ethically.

For instance, with how motorists text and drive today, would you want to see those same people piloting hovercrafts or flying cars?
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Old 09-25-2017, 08:53 AM   #18
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Yes, there are limits, but those limits lie very far from our current capabilities.
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Old 09-25-2017, 02:41 PM   #19
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Everything has limits. There is a place science just cannot reach.
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Old 09-25-2017, 02:42 PM   #20
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Everything has limits. There is a place science just cannot reach.
How do you know this?
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