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Some years ago, Google+ had this question for me as a way to populate my profile: "What are things you still cannot find on Google?". I know why they asked that
by hosh 4y ago
Some years ago, Google+ had this question for me as a way to populate my profile: "What are things you still cannot find on Google?". I know why they asked that question, yet I was tickled by the more interesting question: "What you will never find on Google?"
I was so tickled that I put it on my profile here on HN and elsewhere -- but all of those things I put down are different ways of saying "Wisdom".
Google has aspirations about organizing the world's knowledge, and making it easy to search for facts and knowledge. What I'm saying here is that people have never been able to find wisdom in a Google search -- and never will. Each person finds it within themselves through awareness of wholes.
So in my view, it is not that it's getting harder to find wisdom from a Google search, but rather, the proliferation of knowledge and facts over the years have increasingly made it even more distracting to find wisdom within themselves.
- russellendicott 4y agoOr it's a trick and the mere fact that you're seeking answers and asking for help is the wisest move of all.
- _hcuq 4y agoYep. Maybe the search for wisdom starts with sitting silent and still under a tree for a while.
- mcqueenjordan 4y agoWhat you'll never find on Google: a good answer to "What should be added to Google?" The Göögle Incompleteness Theorem