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Whats the point of knowing about how perception works? If we can perceive our surroundings, why do understand it and do something good back to the surroundings?
by imvetri 7y ago
Whats the point of knowing about how perception works?
If we can perceive our surroundings, why do understand it and do something good back to the surroundings?
Understanding how we can count things doesn't amount to any good.
If we can count things, count the bad things that are happening.
Next time reduce the count.
That's the only purpose of knowledge.
- mikelevins 7y agoWe don't know what a new discovery will be good for until after we make it. If you are curious, then the point of figuring out how something works is to satisfy your curiosity. If you're not curious, then there is no point to it. On the other hand, curious people poking at things sometimes make discoveries that turn out to be useful. For that reason, even the incurious have learned to tolerate and even encourage the investigations of the curious, even though they often seem pointless.