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Or hey, the courage to even act upon the most basic of conclusion. Being useful is very different from being aware or intelligent. It's sometimes more useful to
by xwolfi 2y ago
Or hey, the courage to even act upon the most basic of conclusion. Being useful is very different from being aware or intelligent. It's sometimes more useful to be ignorant and brave, than scholarly and asleep high in an ivory tower.
Knowledge, or its synthesis into derivative knowledge, have nothing to do with utility I think ? It's sometimes pointless to acquire knowledge, and useful to act upon the world. So I don't really understand what you meant by "useful" yourself there.
What is the goal to reach ?
- ggm 2y agoThere's interior applicability to knowledge: it feeds thought and the inductive reasoning process. If you have never been exposed to TV, being exposed to TV changes how you think. There's exterior applicability to knowledge: feed a man a fish vs teach a man to fish. I see both as "utility" although I suppose achieving nirvana is seen as utility in other people's domains. It's subjective.
- pixl97 2y agoBy analogy is one of the most powerful tools that humanity has. Using a rod to get a lure where you want it might cross over later in to getting a rope across a ravine.