Nicholas of Cusa Week 1 Post 8

This short movie, for me personally was a little hard to understand because it was so abstract.  Socrates says that the only thing he truly knows is that he knows nothing. He says this because he understands the complexity of the world and how it is too much for anyone to really grasp.  I don't get what hes saying because is that supposed to mean we shouldn't bother trying to learn anymore because its too much to handle anyway? I have always thought of life as one humungous mathematical equation, mathematical chain that cannot be broken because if it has a missing link in the chain it wouldn't exist.

 

            Everything we know and everything we will know about the universe is made up of numbers in every dimensionally possible way.  Because everything is so much made of numbers, and everything is related to everything else and interconnected in some way, it is impossible to know anything really. For example, even just trying to figure out mathematically the way an apple relates to all things in the universe is not possible.  And it's because of that that we can't claim to know anything, thus we are ignorant. And basically we are pretty much like socrates, in the sense that the only thing that socrates actually knew was that he didn't know anything