THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER
Suppose you have a complete theory of Everything (both knowable and unknowable), does it count if you cannot articulate it? A theory must be expressed in some language to make it comprehensible to another being. The limits of that theory is circumscribed by the limits of language, what language is capable of expressing. If something is ineffable, then it obviously falls outside of language, but more importantly, it falls outside of any possible theory.
Ask any mystic about his or her experiences, and I'll bet the conversation is about noumena. During discussions, we readily use the subject "we," just as I use "you" to address you. But who are "you" really? Some might say, body and soul. And there again the Kantian division between phenomena and noumena pops up -- for the entity "soul" cannot be pinned down in phenomena.
In his 1994 book "THE ASTONISHING HYPOTHESIS: The Scientific Search for the Soul," Francis Crick [co-discoverer of DNA] argued that the soul is an illusion perpetuated, like Tinkerbell, only by our belief in it. He wrote: "'YOU,' your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules."
