ABSTRACT
Horgan (1996) argues compellingly that we are approaching the limits of science. He notes that many scientific fields have reached the point of “ironic science,” where only unanswerable questions remain to be answered. At this terminus, the fertile human imagination continues to pose questions, to speculate about the nature of the universe or of consciousness, for example, but what remains to be known is buried in a heap of unobservable events, or influenced by forces that cannot be measured, or knotted in the paradox of self-reference. Some questions, he also notes, are simply more complex than systematic observation can unravel.
