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This is because humans are the only living thing which feels inadequate enough to ask questions. No other creature feels like it lacks knowledge. And yes, I'll
by jd115 5y ago
This is because humans are the only living thing which feels inadequate enough to ask questions. No other creature feels like it lacks knowledge.
And yes, I'll take it a step further: the reason science glorifies questions is because science is human beings systematically mass-hypnotising each other into greater and greater inadequacy.
You ever notice how you never get enough answers in science? Every "answer" you get scientifically only seems to bring about more and more questions? We call it "scientific curiosity" and pretend to marvel at it, but come on, how shallow is that.
What every other living creature (and every newborn human) intrinsically knows is that it knows all it needs to know. And that whenever it needs to know more, it will know it. That's it. There is no scientific process, no philosophical inquiries, no questioning. No doubt. No lack.
- rsj_hn 5y agoYou must not have a dog waiting for you when you come home late
- jd115 5y agoYes, great point - but this is only because the animals we domesticate have been brainwashed by us humans into feeling (almost, but never quite) as inadequate as we do.
- glogla 5y agoTo ask questions, you have to 1) understand that others have minds 2) understand that there are things you don't know 3) understand that others might know things you don't 4) understand that you may ask them and they will tell you. That's actually a lot of advanced cognition, even if it doesn't look that way to us.
- jd115 5y ago1) This is universal. Everything understands this. I'd argue adult humans actually have the least developed (or, more accurately, the most diluted) understanding of this. 2) Irrelevant. You know everything you need to know at any given moment. 3) Irrelevant. Nobody knows anything you care about. 4) False. Yes, you may ask, but nobody can transfer their knowledge to you, because their knowledge is of no use to you. Your questions can only be answered with your knowledge. Which makes questioning obsolete (which is where I started). Its not a lot of advanced cognition. It's a lot of misunderstanding of how life works.