So is this statement true? He says that The Encyclopedia Britannica discovered in the late 1980's that all knowledge from 6000 years ago to 1900, we've learned the same amount of new info from 1900 to 1950, we've learned as many things as we did in the last 6000 years. From 1950 to 1970 we again learned again as much info as we did in 6000 years. And again from 1970 to 1980 we learned the same volume of knowledge.
Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started. They could still get him out of office. But instead, they want mass death. Don’t forget that.
I've seen that a hundred times and never thought it was true. I should say, I have never thought it even means anything!
1) How is knowledge quantified? What is the unit of measure - the "sophion"? The total amount of text generated?!
2) Assuming that hurdle was cleared, how was this measured?! In what languages is this knowledge known? What are its repositories? How did they find out how much knowledge the secret services have? Do studies that later turn out wrong get subtracted? Is anyone keeping track for plagiarism? Does filling out a DMV form add to the world's total store of knowledge? How about a new book of laws? Or what?
3) "We've learned..." Who is this mystical "we" who does the "knowing"? Who could even begin to know how to tell substance from noise and repetition outside the tiny fraction of the world's knowledge that any given one person could specialize in?
They never ask how much is being LOST! 6000 languages, and 90 percent of them are dying off. How much knowledge about peasant agricultural techniques, or plants and species indigenous to a given area, is being lost? How many other professions and skills are being lost to obsolescence?
QUESTION:
Knowledge is a collective good that can be stored and made accessible to others. But can anything be "known" outside of an individual's consciousness? A computer program can gather knowledge, but is it "known" before a human reads the output? Obviously computers can be programmed to act on information that they've gathered before a human even becomes aware of it (activate fire sprinklers, create several billion fake websites based on search terms, or have Skynet launch a nuclear war, that kind of thing). But is anything "known" when it's not in a living creature's consciousness?
We meet at the borders of our being, we dream something of each others reality. - Harvey of R.I.
To Justice my maker from on high did incline: I am by virtue of its might divine, The highest Wisdom and the first Love.
Howling Rainbows wrote:A child of one year old has a perspective that a lifetime is one year. At two his lifespan has doubled.
I remember a friend, at 13, sharing this insight. Seems like yesterday, too.
For me, at least, time's acceleration is mitigated by a diminishing fear of death. It was a paralyzing dread when I was a kid, and I wondered how old people could appear so relaxed. And I suppose that makes sense. The more time you see ahead of you, in potential, the more anxious you ought to be about losing it.
The sense of speed of movement is also affected by where you fixate your attention.
Ride in a car on the highway, place your attention on your physical self or the inside of the car, and the world outside your car appears to zip by at a fast rate of speed.
Place your attention at a faraway point outside the car, however, and the sense of speed drastically slows down.
The distance between where you are placing your attention and your sense of a physical self... has a direct effect on your sense of speed of the world around you.
Seniors tend to be a lot more self-reflective than children, contributing to the sense that the world is speeding by outside them.
"Once you label me, you negate me." — Soren Kierkegaard
Oh for crying out loud, it's simply biological. Neural processing and response times slow down as we age, so everything else appears to go faster, that's why old people drive really slowly
"The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego."
Perhaps our lives are just one long single thought and we are but nodes, cells, neurons. I know, not an incredibly original thought for RI. But I feel the sensation of thinking about that question differently than I did when I made the OP. Which, incidentally, I'd forgotten about until I saw this thread get bumped. Time should pass equally for all ages, goes the maxim and conventional wisdom. Yet, why does it not? Why is time perceived and entropy noticed only when you have spent a deal of time away from someone or something? I've often spent hours looking at a shadow move. You really can't see it happen even if you intently stare at it for an hour or so. I stared to witness the very movement of the Earth with each passing millisecond. You don't see it until you go away and not think about it for a spell. Which isn't to say it isn't happening while you are watching it, but our brains are wired to perceive and INTUIT.
Oh and who parked the moon?
Humans, kids really, can get a good grasp of this when they gaze into a telescope and they see the quick procession of a heavenly body from the field of view. That's when I became fascinated by it.
We need more fascination and NO dogma.
(Wouldn't you know it? Even more Canadians I've borrowed joy from)
Holy crap. I just realized I'm wearing my original Roll the Bones tour shirt which somehow doesn't have Denver on the back. I never wear this shirt. Just decided to put it on. Totally threadbare. Every time I look at this shirt I look at the back that somehow doesn't have Denver on it and see if I'd still missed it all these years. Still not there. Didn't miss the most awesome concert in my life though. RUSH WAS IN DENVER!!!
There is no me. There is no you. There is all. There is no you. There is no me. And that is all. A profound acceptance of an enormous pageantry. A haunting certainty that the unifying principle of this universe is love. -- Propagandhi
One of my all time fave songs justdrew. But I'm going to recommend this video which features Alex Lifeson saying his low pitched "subdivisions" into a mic. Plus you get to see how hot Geddy is. Also great point on time, never thought of the song that way. . .
It's the same song but the actual video.
There is no me. There is no you. There is all. There is no you. There is no me. And that is all. A profound acceptance of an enormous pageantry. A haunting certainty that the unifying principle of this universe is love. -- Propagandhi
always thought Bad Religion should cover subdivisions
you know these guys...? lotsa classic easy listening hits
so when considering this I find there's usually a difference between how the passage of time feels in the moment vs how the time is remembered.
if time flies, it'll be remembered as being 'long' 'slow' because of the # of details while if it's draggin' and the clock won't move, it'll be remembered as the blink of an eye, because nothing much was happening.
By 1964 there were 1.5 million mobile phone users in the US
Why don't we say that if it's our entire adult lives that feel faster, then maybe that's the norm, and the slow childhood years just a childish aberration that we grow out of?
by seemslikeadream » Wed Feb 03, 2010 7:23 pm 
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