content: Human intellect can be boxed in and domesticated pretty easily by exploiting the landscape of human psychology. You can have infinitely complex ideas about infinite things and have those ideas be  ff8   rational and true-- but only within the context of your belief system.  So intelligent people can run their minds around in their cave for eternity, describing shadows on the wall in all of their intricacies and infinite complexity, without ever taking a step towards Truth because they've been psychologically conditioned against leaving the cave.