Many great points! I thought this was interesting: > Instead, I see the ability to "know" something as a characteristic of the human brain. It's an ability th

Many great points! I thought this was interesting: > Instead, I see the ability to "know" something as a characteristic of the human brain. It's an ability that causes the brain to lock onto one belief and disregard all others. It appears to be tendency we all have, which means it's probably evolved by evolution due to providing some evolutionary advantage. It is substantially hardware (the brain) and software (the culturally conditioned mind). Rewind 100 years and consider what most people "knew" that black people were. Now, consider what most people nowadays "know" black people are not. So, definitely an improvement in my opinion, but if we can ever get our heads straight about racial matters I think we'll be well on our way to the second enlightenment.