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TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE
ON
KNOWLEDGE
TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE All knowledge types are stored in memory and provide the knowledge
base that makes life possible.
If a tiny bacterium had no knowledge about where food was, it wouldsurely die.
At the human level we must process huge amounts of data from MESTinto knowledge of our surroundings before we can even stand up andwalk.
MEST gives us direct knowledge that humans used for millions of years.
It was only when we learned to talk and write that we discoveredinformation.
It was probably very shortly after the first words were spoken that thefirst lie was told and humans discovered the true/false nature ofknowledge and information.
MEST is an acronym used in Scientology and coined by author L. RonHubbard. Hubbard used the first letters of the words matter, energy,space and time, the component parts of the physical universe. Writingsand lectures by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard frequently use theterm MEST in place of the phrase "the physical universe".
KNOWLEDGE DEFINITION
Knowledge is defined in the OxfordEnglish Dictionary as:-
Expertise, and skills acquired by aperson through experience oreducation; the theoretical or practicalunderstanding of a subject,
What is known in a particular field or intotal; facts and information or
Awareness or familiarity gained byexperience of a fact or situation.
Knowledge acquisition involvescomplex Cognitive processes:Perception, Learning, Communication,Association and Reasoning.
The term knowledge is also used tomean the confident Understanding of asubject with the ability to use it for aspecific purpose if appropriate.
DIRECT KNOWLEDGE
Direct-knowledge is
firsthand experience with
data received through
sensors like seeing,
hearing, and feeling,
smelling and tasting.
Something feels hot, looks
blue, tastes bitter, or smells
bad are all data that can be
remembered as Direct-
knowledge
INDIRECT KNOWLEDGE
Indirect-knowledge isknowledge acquired byprocessing information.The processes ofthinking, andunderstanding produceindirect knowledge.
Indirect-knowledge issecond-hand and can notalways be trustedbecause it depends onhow the knowledge wasunderstood in the firstplace.
INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE
Intuitive-knowledge isknowledge stored insubsystem memory that isnot accessible to the higherbrain functions.
Intuitive-knowledge may bestored in DNA or a motor-control subsystem like theknowledge that controlswalking.
The autonomic nervoussystem uses intuitiveknowledge to operate ourbasic bodily functions.
PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE
Procedural-knowledge is
the how-to instructions that
tell step by step how to do
something.
Procedural-knowledge is
like a recipe or computer
program, it is a list of
instructions needed to
perform a specific task.
Procedures are a
sequence of knowledge
events spaced out in time
QUESTIONS
Questions are knowledge
in search of knowledge.
A question is like a void of
knowledge that needs to
be filled.
Questions can be stored
in memory just like any
other knowledge.
Questions can initiate
procedures to acquire the
questioned knowledge.
DECISIONS
Decisions are made of acombination of proceduralknowledge andquestions.
The question can causethe procedure to changewith respect to theanswer to the question.
Knowledge of decisionscan be a historical recordof why certain procedureswere executed in acertain way.
INFORMATION
Information is a type ofknowledge used to communicateother knowledge, and may ormay not contain the knowledgeactually communicated.
The information 'that's hot' impliesthe communication of some directknowledge about someunspecified thing being hot.
Information uses languages thatcome in the form of Physical,Functional, or Symbolic.
A wave of a hand or a spokenword communicates information.A type of behavior alsocommunicates information.
Written and spoken languagesare symbolic forms of information
FIXED
Fixed-knowledge is
knowledge that comes
from information in
books or in DNA
sequences that can not
be changed.
Laws and constitutions
are written examples of
the use of fixed
knowledge to establish
standards of behavior
DYNAMIC
Dynamic-knowledge isknowledge that is moving andchanges with time like theposition of the sun.
Dynamic-knowledge can betracked with mathematicalequations, clocks, or by othermeans.
Dynamic-knowledge is alwayschanging and therefore can notbe stored directly in memory.
Knowing that things arechanging may be all theknowledge necessary about agiven subject
TRUE or FALSE
The concept of true and falseknowledge can act as apreamble to other types ofknowledge.
An optical illusion can producefalse direct knowledge.
False indirect knowledge isevident when someone lies toyou. False knowledge comesfrom misunderstanding, lying,miscommunication, or nonsense.
True knowledge is usually thedirect type but indirectknowledge can be proven truewith logic or mathematics.
A trick question could beconsidered false knowledge ifthere is no possible answer
CONTRADICTION
A contradiction is a type of
knowledge used to change
the state of some other
knowledge from True to
False or from False to
True.
Contradictions are used as
a tool to decide whether
certain knowledge is
logically true or false
PREDICTION
A prediction or conjecture
is knowledge of the future
developed from processing
current knowledge.
Our brain can process
dynamic knowledge to
predict where we should
be to catch a ball.
We can also use our
experience (knowledge) to
predict the most likely
outcome of current events
NONSENSE
Nonsense is knowledge thatresults from informationpurposely or inadvertentlyscrambled so that itconfuses the brain.
There are billions of reamsof nonsense printed eachday and it is very confusing.
True knowledge can evenappear as nonsense if theinformation ismisunderstood.
Indirect knowledge takenout of context also producesnonsense.
NO KNOWLEDGE or THE END
The End is the empty-set ofknowledge where noknowledge exists.
Like the number zero is avery important place markeror indicator.
The End marks the end of astream of knowledge.
If you say, 'I don't know' thatis a statement that you havereached the end of yourknowledge on that subject.
All knowledge-basedsystems require an endstatement to organize theirmemory structures