Monday, March 1, 2010
Not knowing=Knowledge?
In the Calcutta Chromosome there is this secret group of people/religion that believes the not knowing something is knowledge and that by knowing something you change it and therefore do not really know it. There was also that clip on the double slit experiment in which the particle stopped behaving like a wave when there was an observer. Do you believe that if you know something you change it? Is it the actual object that changes or is it you who changes and views the object differently? What are your takes on knowledge? Also if things we think of as non-living and inanimate like atoms change because of an observer does that mean that our definition of cognitive beings should change?
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Ummm.... I honestly believe if we know something, it's best to leave it alone for the sole fact that it's only YOU that knows about it. Unless there are more who knew about it then it would be ok to change it. And should it be changed, it should change the view itself since that is what matters the most. This is probably not the best response, but this was a little tricky to understand.
ReplyDeleteAlright, this was kind of confusing, and really deep but....I feel knowledge is the measure of how much an individual understands and interprets things. So I do not agree with the idea that "not knowing" something is what leads to knowledge and by knowing something you change it because I think the "knowing" is what leads to the knowledge and by changing it (if we change it), we're simply expanding upon the information we know. I am just against the idea that by knowing something, we are changing it or making it different; it just doesn't really make sense to me. And in terms of the last question posed, I can't really answer because I do not believe things can simply change because of an observer.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that video explained the 'observer' part in a bad way. They say that the electron 'knows' it's being watch, but notice that they don't give you the full details on how it was measure.
ReplyDeleteElectrons are inanimate; they don't 'know'. They are only affected by the photons emitted by the device used to measure it, which destroys the wavelike probabilities and makes it seem like a particle.
I agree with James, it doesn't make any sense to change something by knowing it. These events are completely independent of each other, and the only way it could possibly make any sense is if you interpret it differently after knowing it, like you said.