Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Interpretation (present) vs Final Knowledge (end)



Terms I use, and what they mean in this post:

Knowledge:  Our accepted conclusions about the world.

Understanding:  Our absorption of knowledge- making it part of ourselves.

Interpretation:  How we label the world given what we experience.

Specific (S):  Micro- concerning an individual, building-block type of thing

General (G):  Macro- concerning the mass of things, concerning the building (vs the
                                                                                                                   building block)



        Our road of the growing (Knowledge -> Understanding -> Interpretation -> Knowledge -> etc) of our existence is something natural and necessary.  It is a path we must go down.  It can not be "rushed".  We will know what we know when we know it, and we proceed from that point.

          If we as a civilization were given the final truths of our universe, at the worse we would go mad (as a civilization), at the very least it would sabotage our development.

So what is important?

    That we continue to strive for the best Interpretation of the nature of our existence, given our Knowledge.


         It's a path.  What we shouldn't do is tarry from Interpretation because of a thought that we don't have "the most accurate truth".  We should keep striving forward with continual Interpretation, building Knowledge, and building Understanding.

We need a fair amount of acceptance of where we are, per Knowledge and Specific Understanding, and to move to General Interpretation.

Interpretation is Key.

Our current Knowledge and Specific Understanding base should be seen as a place.  From this place we should quest for the best Interpretation(s).

Hyper Interpretation messes up (i.e., corrupts and destroys) Understanding.

Hypo Interpretation hinders the progress of understanding, and even the quest for knowledge.

What is important is not what the end solution is, but our Interpretation* from where we are right now, given our Specific Understanding and Knowledge.

*of our given situation

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