Today I attended a lunch in Harvard Square sponsored by the Census of Marine Life where the goal is to get a general count of all the marine life in the ocean. That seems like a fairly complex task to me. A quick browse of the kind of forms that exist in the ocean do make any form of contemporary art look entirely passee. I learned of the KUU method of looking at the world. That there are things that are Known, Unknown, and Unknowable. This methodology has the air of something deeply grounded in the space of logic, but the terminal U of Unknowable has a kind of humility embedded in the methodology. The idea of an absolutely can't know is a powerful idea in the search for knowledge. Definitely kuul ...
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Everything else is Unknowable.
There are probably subsets to Unknowable but uhh...we can't know for sure.