The question I ask is this, "Is it better to know everything and learning nothing or knowing nothing and being able to learn anything?".
The former. The latter ensures that you will never know "everything". The former means you have no need to learn anything because you already know everything.
Is knowing everything always better than still being able to learn anything?
You could know everything, but then if asked a simple question would you be able to give a simple answer?
A person that knows everything may not be able to easily give a simple answer for a simple question.
If a simple question is given to person that does not know everything, that person may be more inclined to give a simple answer.
If say for example I know everything at the current time 9:56 est.
Now in the time that it took me to write this someone somewhere has discovered something new. No matter how small it is it is something.
Since I can't learn anything and something new has been discovered I no longer no everything and as the world marches on around me I slip further and further from that glorious time 1 minute ago when I new everything.
Look I don't even know when to end a sentance anymore.
For this reason I suppose I would have to pick the 2nd option. (though I'm not entirely sure it's possible to know nothing either);)
The creation of this thread came from reading the chess thread and the following from my experiences.
This is how I define (interpret or through intuition) wisdom and clarity.
Wisdom: Knowing that one knows nothing.
Clarity: knowing that one cannot know everything.
The question I ask is this, "Is it better to know everything and learning nothing or knowing nothing and being able to learn anything?".
Yes, the second option may be impossible in this world. I'm not saying it's principally impossible in all worlds, but it seems that cognition itself exists with knowledge, like knowledge of inference, judgment, etc., however incomplete that knowledge may be.
And... why wouldn't the first one be better? If one knows everything, of course one is learning nothing. Everything is known.
What's missing from a life of perfect knowledge?
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I think it would be better to know everything. However, I'd probably want to forget it once I knew it because of how many really bad things there are to know. I guess I'm too ignorant to know if I want to be omniscient.
The point of a hypothetical question is not to disprove the premise. You're just supposed to consider it true for a moment, whether it is possible or not.
The ability to be surprised or perhaps even entertained? For me, knowledge by itself isn't always fulfilling. I want a way to use it or share it. I also want to be able to continue experiencing physical and emotional sensations. (That is, I don't think I'd want to be a being of pure mental energy with no way to interact or influence or be influenced by others.)
I think both are really bad things. The one that i'd really like is: Konwing something, and be able to learn something. And I think that this is how we are as of right now.
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The creation of this thread came from reading the chess thread and the following from my experiences.
This is how I define (interpret or through intuition) wisdom and clarity.
Wisdom: Knowing that one knows nothing.
Clarity: knowing that one cannot know everything.
The question I ask is this, "Is it better to know everything and learning nothing or knowing nothing and being able to learn anything?".
I'll take knowing everything, then I can sell the cure of lots of incurable diseases, make a quantum computer, end up one rich bastards and know how to handle the afterlife if there is one. I don't see a flaw in that plan.
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This is how I define (interpret or through intuition) wisdom and clarity.
Wisdom: Knowing that one knows nothing.
Clarity: knowing that one cannot know everything.
The question I ask is this, "Is it better to know everything and learning nothing or knowing nothing and being able to learn anything?".
The former. The latter ensures that you will never know "everything". The former means you have no need to learn anything because you already know everything.
You could know everything, but then if asked a simple question would you be able to give a simple answer?
A person that knows everything may not be able to easily give a simple answer for a simple question.
If a simple question is given to person that does not know everything, that person may be more inclined to give a simple answer.
If say for example I know everything at the current time 9:56 est.
Now in the time that it took me to write this someone somewhere has discovered something new. No matter how small it is it is something.
Since I can't learn anything and something new has been discovered I no longer no everything and as the world marches on around me I slip further and further from that glorious time 1 minute ago when I new everything.
Look I don't even know when to end a sentance anymore.
For this reason I suppose I would have to pick the 2nd option. (though I'm not entirely sure it's possible to know nothing either);)
Yes, the second option may be impossible in this world. I'm not saying it's principally impossible in all worlds, but it seems that cognition itself exists with knowledge, like knowledge of inference, judgment, etc., however incomplete that knowledge may be.
And... why wouldn't the first one be better? If one knows everything, of course one is learning nothing. Everything is known.
What's missing from a life of perfect knowledge?
Awesome avatar provided by Krashbot @ [Epic Graphics].
The point of a hypothetical question is not to disprove the premise. You're just supposed to consider it true for a moment, whether it is possible or not.
The ability to be surprised or perhaps even entertained? For me, knowledge by itself isn't always fulfilling. I want a way to use it or share it. I also want to be able to continue experiencing physical and emotional sensations. (That is, I don't think I'd want to be a being of pure mental energy with no way to interact or influence or be influenced by others.)
Thanks Æther for making my banner! And even if he says it's only an honor working for the shop, Thanks to Hot Pizza
I'll take knowing everything, then I can sell the cure of lots of incurable diseases, make a quantum computer, end up one rich bastards and know how to handle the afterlife if there is one. I don't see a flaw in that plan.
Control is the ultimate expression of power.