The more you know, the broader the range of what you don't know—not as a lack, but as a creation.

Remove the reading "not reachable"

Awareness is indeed advancing. What was not visible is becoming visible. This is happening as a fact.

At the same time, complete convergence is not structurally possible. No matter how far we go, the remaining value will never reach it. In mathematics, this relationship is called asymptotic. Asymptotic behavior is one in which we approach an infinite value infinitely close, but never converge with finite operations.

It can sometimes feel like you are running towards a goal that will never be reached.

There is a fixed goal that cannot be reached forever. This can also be seen in the structure of the lack. It seems that what is lacking will remain lacking forever.

But what actually happens is different. In the words of phenomenology, every perception involves a “horizon.” A horizon is the space that opens up behind what we are currently seeing, as something that has not yet been subjectified. Every step forward brings a step back, and in front of that step new scenery appears.

In other words, what has increased is not the remainder. It is the part that is visible. It is easier to understand if we compare knowledge to a circle. The more knowledge we gain, the larger the circle becomes. Anything that increases in volume inevitably also increases the circumference, or the boundary that is in contact with the unknown. The realization that more things are unknown can be read as evidence that the circle has grown larger. However, this realization does not reach those who are standing still.

Based on the assumption that there will be no end to it

The extended complex theory advocated by the village chief treats this structure as “non-closure of description.” Description cannot be closed on itself no matter how many layers are added; it always leaves a surplus outside of itself. The point where the unknown ends does not exist in principle.

The surplus here does not mean the remaining area that has not yet been explored. Even in places where the research has been completed, new edges emerge the moment the description is delivered; the opposite edge then rises up as a new unknown. The unknown is not an inventory accumulated outside of knowledge. It is something that knowledge itself creates with each step forward.

If that is the case, then setting the goal of “knowing everything” itself is not in line with the structure. It is not difficult because it cannot be achieved. The reason why it is difficult is that the form of achievement does not exist from the beginning. The 15th-century thinker Nicholas of Cusa called this awareness “knowing ignorance.” Ignorance that knows one’s own ignorance is before unconscious knowledge.

Conversely, when the feeling of "everything is gone" arises, it is better to suspect that something is not being done properly. It may just be that because the visible area has not expanded, the rest has not increased either.

── Replacing the way to measure satisfaction

When measured by the amount of knowledge gained, the sense of progress diminishes the more one progresses. That is because the rate of increase for the remaining knowledge is faster.

When measured by the amount of things that we have become unable to understand anew, the narrative reverses. It is precisely during a period when there is a continuous increase in good questions and an expansion of the unknown territory that we are advancing.

The quality and quantity of the question itself reflects the height of the point reached.

The situation where questioning increases as learning expands is honestly unstable in terms of mood, but I would like to re-recognize that this instability is not a sign of regression, but a sign that the horizon is moving.

For the next six months, I want you to write down everything you haven’t learned. If nothing comes to mind, it’s time to stop learning.

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