text: **New mysterianism**
  
  New mysterianism, most significantly associated with the philosopher Colin McGinn, proposes that the 
  human mind, in its current form, will not be able to explain consciousness.[128][11] McGinn draws on 
  Noam Chomsky's distinction between problems, which are in principle solvable, and mysteries, which 
  human cognitive faculties are unequipped to ever understand, and places the mind–body problem in the 
  latter category.[128] His position is that a naturalistic explanation does exist but that the human mind is 
  cognitively closed to it due to its limited range of intellectual abilities.[128] He cites Jerry Fodor's concept 
  of the modularity of mind in support of cognitive closure.[128] 
  
  While in McGinn's strong form, new mysterianism states that the relationship between consciousness and 
  the material world can*never*be understood by the human mind, there are also weaker forms that argue it 
  cannot be understood within existing paradigms but that advances in science or philosophy may open the 
  way to other solutions (see above).[43] The ideas of Thomas Nagel and Joseph Levine fall into the second 
  category.[43] Steven Pinker has also endorsed this weaker version of the view, summarizing it as 
  follows:[9] 