Born to do Math 106 – Human Beings as Mathematical Structures (3)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Born To Do Math
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2019/02/01
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What do you think of those three Feynman futures? What do you think is the most likely one?
Rick Rosner: I think the most likely is that we get a more and more complete understanding of the universe. But there is never a complete understanding. There are always questions. Some are challenging. Some will remain the same. Some questions will remain resistant for a long time.
Some will be solved. New big questions will emerge. Some of the big new questions of 200 years from now may be so far along philosophically, making so many philosophical paths; that if you tried to explain them to people today – even a philosophy or a scientist today. They would say, “Why is that an issue? It is so beyond the beyond the beyond that it doesn’t seem like a concern.”
We will continue to find metaphysical questions beyond those. That may or may not impact people’s existences on a daily basis. But they are still foundational. They are still questions about how things can be. They may still have implications, in the way of getting down to quantum mechanics will lead to quantum computing and will lead to powerful information processing entities 80 to 100 years from now.
We will push further and further along the paths of the questions of existence and along the paths of understanding things in a big data way. We will have an increasing understanding but we will be facing increasingly vague and basic questions.
I think, of the three possibilities or three possible scientific futures, that would have been the future that would have made Feynman the happiest, or the happiest when we bring him back.
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