[simpleTruth]

I brought it up because people actually believe it. As you noticed both resolution and time are important limitations. You don't get to arbitrarily examine things at any resolution or for any length of time. Stick a AI up to a webcam at 648x480 @ 30 cycles per second pointed at a brick wall and it's not going to be able to say comment on politics in the middle east.

Or in a more down to earth example, if we stop building ever higher energy particle accelerators there are things we simply don't get to know.