Thursday, February 02, 2006

Knowledge is really predictive power.

Mathematics, history, gossip, no matter what the field, knowledge helps us control and navigate our lives as we journey into the future.

The only reason we want to “know” something is if it helps guide us in the future. It is therefore only reasonable that a being that stands outside of time as we know it and can “see” all time at once would be considered by us to be all knowledge.

Our silly, serial, three dimensional selves stand in awe of such a concept.
Our integrated selves ARE such a concept.

3 comments:

Paul said...

I agree with the basic post.

"The only reason we want to 'know' something is if it helps guide us in the future."

Sometimes, I want to "know" just because it's fun. It gives me pleasure -- even useless knowledge. But, is any knowlege "useless"? Maybe all knowledge guides us into the future and maybe the pleasure of knowing and wanting to learn is Nature's way of leading us into preparing for the future.

Paul said...

To i wonder,

Yup.

Anonymous said...

I don't know what you are talking about. Stay with the facts.