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I think the misphrasing of your question provides the answer you're looking for. You don't digest knowledge, you digest information. Knowledge is the internaliz
by brd 12y ago
I think the misphrasing of your question provides the answer you're looking for. You don't digest knowledge, you digest information. Knowledge is the internalization of that information.
When you are able to convert information you've digested into knowledge, I'd say it's worth it. The rest of the time, you're just learning and potentially memorizing some information that will likely have little impact on your life.
With knowledge, it becomes something that improves your mental model of the world. Knowledge is a topic of conversation you can bring up or discuss reasonably.
Put another way: knowledge is what makes a person interesting; information is how you win Jeopardy.
- galfarragem 12y agoKnowledge is an idea/concept that you understand on a deep level and is interconnected with other ideas. You can't easily forget it. Information is an idea/concept that you don't really understand on a deep level or can easily can interconnect with other ideas. Assuming that our memory is full most of the time (unless you are making some kind of defragmentation aka meditation/relaxation) to get new information your brain must make space in your memory first. Lots of information is continually being lost. IMHO, empirically, each person has: -"ROM" (memory to store knowledge, normally increasing along your life). -"RAM" (memory to store novelty, normally decreasing along your life). Probably genetics provide minimum and maximum sizes that these 2 memory types can ever reach.