Tuesday, November 8, 2011
On "Knowledge", or lack thereof
I now realize that I am an Epistemological Solipsist. We cannot know anything about our reality as it really is, because we "know" what we think we know through fickle, alterable sensory perceptions. The only way something could be known is if you could directly perceive the absolute reality (or objective reality) as it really is, which is impossible. Objective knowledge is a literal impossibility. Ergo, we know nothing. So, take that Epistemology! I beat you. The answer is that we cannot know anything. If that's the case, then we should probably excommunicate the notion of knowledge and knowing from all of our languages, as well as our collective unconscious. I mean, yeah, I've heard what they say about subjective knowledge being possible. They even say it is the only knowledge we truly can have. They say that nothing can be known outside of our own mind. I refute that notion and suggest that, as our brains are made of lumps of physical matter and chemical interactions that are all alterable and inconsistent, we really cannot "know" anything at all, ever.
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