论文标题
我们甚至无法想象的是什么？
What can we know about that which we cannot even imagine?
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论文摘要
在本文中，我将考虑一系列问题。第一个问题涉及一般智力的生物学功能，尤其是人类智力的认知假体。这些将导致有关人类语言的问题，也许是有史以来最重要的认知假体。虽然传统上对用人类语言封装的认知能力进行挥之不去，但我将强调人类语言的可怕程度 - 因此，尽管我们的认知能力有多么有限，尽管它们被语言增强了。这将导致关于最终以人类语言制定的人类数学是否也受到严重有限的问题。然后，我将这些问题结合起来，构成部分，侧身的回答，以回答本文的指导关注：我们可以辨别我们甚至无法构想的什么？
In this essay I will consider a sequence of questions. The first questions concern the biological function of intelligence in general, and cognitive prostheses of human intelligence in particular. These will lead into questions concerning human language, perhaps the most important cognitive prosthesis humanity has ever developed. While it is traditional to rhapsodize about the cognitive power encapsulated in human language, I will emphasize how horribly limited human language is - and therefore how limited our cognitive abilities are, despite their being augmented with language. This will lead to questions of whether human mathematics, being ultimately formulated in terms of human language, is also deeply limited. I will then combine these questions to pose a partial, sort-of, sideways answer to the guiding concern of this essay: what we can ever discern about that we cannot even conceive?
