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What is the beginning of Knowledge?
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What about instinctive knowledge? How does the bird know how to build the nest or a spider spin the web?
On the level of genetics and chromosomes, knowledge seems to be chemically encoded and passed down to future generations. Knowledge obtained from sensory experiences is stored and referenced against existing instinctive knowledge that’s been passed down. Knowledge obtained from language and math, is abstract knowledge but also may be extremely useful.
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I think awareness is the beginning of knowledge, closely followed by our needs or wishes to understand the world, and our place in it. Given these encouragements, we look and listen, and we accumulate some knowledge; we learn. And so it continues, n'est ce pas?Ghazanfar Arif wrote: ↑June 28th, 2018, 3:34 am Wonder is the beginning of knowledge.
Skepticism is the beginning of knowledge.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
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It seems reasonable to me, even obvious, that knowledge is remembered experience. Is there knowledge that doesn't conform to this description? I can't think of any....popeye1945 wrote: ↑November 13th, 2020, 5:36 pm Instinct you might say is our backward link to our ancestors, much struggle, suffering and dying is involved in the possession of ones instincts. Your biological being is the interface to the physical world and your biological readout, is your apparent reality. It is experiences that form the over all picture. Experience and knowledge are one and the same thing. So, I would think that subject and object, object the physical world and subject your biological being, are the beginnings of knowledge. Subject and object can never be separated they are mutually inclusive and all meaning is the property of the subject.
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Sorry I didn't make it clear: I was agreeing with you. Knowledge derives from experience.popeye1945 wrote: ↑November 14th, 2020, 11:29 am Hi Pattern Chaser, Without experience there is nothing, the fact that, that experience is processed doesn't to me undermine the fact that experience is knowledge. One needs the experience or there is nothing to process, What you say is true, it must be remembered to be useful, but that is the later stage of the processes. Instincts and genetic information are another topic, but I believe it is these that link us back to our ancestors and the rest of the biological world.
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