Tag: knowledge
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Knowledge is NOT power… (or: 知識は力ではありません) 🙂
Taro Aso said that bankers in Japan had not been able to understand the complex financial instruments that were the undoing of major global players in the 2008 crisis, so had not bought them. “Many people fell prey to the dubious products, or so-called subprime loans. Japanese banks were not so much attracted to these products,…
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Being advanced… Being stupid…
Modern children have all the technology at the tip of their fingers. They have instant access to vast amounts of knowledge. [1] But they must give it up before it is too late. Because that thing to what they have access is not “knowledge”. It is data. Knowledge is earned. Not read. If you do…
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Dirt, medicine, knowledge…
The colloquial medical advice “rub some dirt in it” appears to have some merit. Researchers at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have been experimenting with different clays, and it appears in research presented in the journal PLoS ONE that they’ve come across a family of antibacterial clays capable of killing pathogens ranging from E. coli…
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Knowledge, Faith, Evidence, Truth…
What is knowledge, if not Faith in the truthness of a proposition? Based to “evidence” up to a point yes, but Faith nontheless. And what does “evidence” mean anyway? What we observe is what we observe. “Evidence” is an artificial human-made word which conveys no meaning whatsoever, besides the meaning we chose to give it. Evidence is…
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More info, No info… The end is like the beginning…
Fill the world with an enormous amount of information… See people becoming overwelmed by much data… Important knowledge lost in the abyss of the Internet… In a weird way, the end is like the beginning when nothing was known…
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