We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?
The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.