Re: I Will Ask This Again

Keynes wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:51:09 -0400, John Doe <none@xxxxx> wrote:

Richard Corfield wrote:
On 2007-10-13, John Doe <none@xxxxx> wrote:
Is this walk a happy kinda skip? How can you see something with your knowledge that lay outside of knowledge.
If such a limitation existed, that it was not possible to see something
outside our knowledge, we'd not have modern science. We'd not be sitting
here typing to each other because we'd not have discovered magnetism and
without magnetism we'd have no electricity. I don't think Babbage's
mechanical adding machine would do USENET very well. Even then, that was
something outside existing knowledge before it was invented. Someone
worked out about differentiation and that you can work out polynomial
equations by adding things repeatedly.

Notably, science never claims to be enlightened. They keep searching.
I'm not sure the concept of "We know all there is to know" even
registers as making any sense to a scientist.

- Richard

Wrong interpretation Richard. I did not say outside of EXISTING knowledge. I said outside of knowledge (period).

Apparently, most people think enlightenment is something that can never be empirically known.

The thing about enlightenment is that one can know OF it,
but no one can Know it. It isn't of the category of knowledge.
It is inexhaustable, unlimited, free flowing and amorphous.
Can you put the wind in a jar?

Can one know that he has awakened? Certainly. It's the change that ends all changes.


Amorphous, kinda like me, yes?
.

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