Can something be impossible to understand?

> The other problem with wishfully thinking that our logic and math might be a universal solution to understanding any posible thing is that we came up these tools to explain the way we experience the universe

I don't think this gets enough credit. Human intelligence and consciousness are things we know literally nothing about and have no tools to understand. But people act as if a turing complete language must be able to simulate intelligence, and somehow conciousness. The probably answer, looking back on science, is they we're wrong and have no idea what we're talking about.

As for the idea that it (intelligence or anything else) is impossible to understand, it seems as the author implies that there is a big difference between thinking of stuff and understanding it. If an alien or time traveler that understood consciousness came and explained it, we'd probably get it, and it would be taught to average people in schools. That seems to be man's big skill, we can learn stuff we'd be way too dumb to ever think up, and through our lived infinite monkeys simulation we end up coming up with some good stuff.