Do You Know It All?

You just have really nice boobs.

 

That's better than the other way around.

 

I think David Bohm's your man for questions like that.

Presumably, everything that exists... exists. And everything that there is to know about everything, potentially can be known.

But since at least some things that are knowable, perhaps all, have alternative ways of looking at them that negate the other ways of knowing about it, we know this, is it then possible to to know diametrically opposing things about something at the same time?

I suppose it is. If I were to say I know that atoms exist, whilst at the same time I can say that I know that there is no ultimate proof that atoms exists, that would constitute knowing two opposing things about the same thing.

But can I know these things, think about them both concurrently in precisely the same nanosecond of time?

Who knows.

But I do know this, that knowledge is subjective. Or at least I think I know this, in which case knowledge is not something that can be stored in a giant organic hard drive similar to a brain. Knowledge is transient, it comes and goes, so maybe it is only possible to know one thing at a time.

But the question is not what we need to know, but whether it is possible to know everything!

Not until I've had my morning poo.

 

But if we're connected ~

internet ~

we have ACCESS to literally EVERYTHING.

Our whole scheme of things changed when the web went online.

NOW, we don't really have to KNOW anything ~

we just have to know how to research it up.

Need some directions for performing Brain (Salad) Surgery?

Google it.

It's amazing ~ even the most ignorant, given the training to be able to research, can be a flippin' GENIUS!!!

Does anyone remember when, exactly, academia decided to allow calculators in math classes? Man, everything changed at THAT moment. THEN, you didn't have to actually KNOW anything other than how to manipulate the calc. It's easier to read directions than to actually think, and if thinking is required? You'd better be ready to interview THOUSANDS of applicants.

That's why our gov is still scouring schools, looking at the IQ tests, culing the above average intellects off to their "schools," which really aren't schools, they're Think Tanks. Talk about thinking outside of the box... Children don't even realize there IS a box, and the variety of options are mindboggling.

What do the Borg say? "Resistance is futile."

Ah, but no.

i can't have to think about that anymore.

And i never should have had to think about any of it in the first place.

 

No, it's the sardonic.

 

No way, I saw a few on here that were understood perfectly.

 

Yes, it is.

It's called comparison.

Humans haven't the vaguest idea of what infinity truly IS,

yet we can still think about it, in the context of our own experiences.

You do.

You obviously CAN think of them both at the same time,

realizing that you have no tangible proofs other than someone else's opinion/theory,

because the existence of atoms, and the Proof of the existence of atoms,

doesn't come anywhere close to hitting you where you live.

Although there IS proof of their existence, that proof might as well be written in Swahili, because in YOUR life? Their existence (or non-existence) just doesn't really matter.

i tried to make this point, my own self:

Even a person with a photographic memory has to actually read, and understand, the things they've seen for any of it to be meaningful.

Otherwise, they're just a tool for recording.

Well,

poo poo pah doo to you!

Hope everything comes out, okay! :rofl:

 

How can you be sure ?

 

i know nothing....

it seems like the more I learn, the less I know....

what happened to the days when i knew everything?!

 

You become more wise over time and realise the only thing you know is that you don't know everything. It's a good thing.

 

i know everything useless.

practical knowledge eludes me like vagina.

 

It makes me feel many different ways, all of which it would be counterproductive to try and describe.

 

I'm used to it. It comes with my obviously and rather oblivious racial superiority as a Jew and a man.

 

Very understandable.

 

well, I guess that knowing (involves first encountering a idea/thought/whatever) and having your brain assign a word that will
represent that idea/thing.
beyond that knowing it all is sort of a personal opinion. The nerve that
connects the mouth to speak and the brain to think is what gets on
the loose.
any more?

 

no, i am not a know it all

and if i was, i'd shoot myself.

 

Oh, man, i've got the PERFECT pic for you :



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