All you think you know must be an illusion… Am I wrong?

Question

If you answer 3 out of 10 questions in a quiz, you have a score of 30%, right?
That shows you knew 30% of what you were supposed to know…
Now, about reality…You know 1001 thousand items of 1001 fields of knowledge.
How much that amounts to? Whatever the number, it’s a finite number, right?
Let’s call that huge FINITE number, N; now, do you believe the Kosmos is infinite (let’s call it Inf), in time and space? If so, you know N/ Inf of Kosmos, right?
So, you know nothing of your surroundings, as N/Inf = 0!
All you think you know must be an illusion… Am I wrong?

Answer 1

Maybe the infinitude of the cosmos is filled with repeating patterns. You don't need to have seen every grain of sand to know what sand is.
Stars, which number in the uncountable trillions, break down to just a few kinds of stars.

This is one of the basic ideas behind chaos theory. That what appears mutlitudinous and nonrepeating, upon wider scrutiny, turns out to be simple. A matter of perspective and the distance between the observer and the observed.
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Now I would go with this statement: the more civilized a person is, the less they may know.

In the fifties the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss studied a group of French School Children along side a group of Pacific Islanders. The french kids knew about butter, and cars, and streets and tv's; the list of objects they could identify was fairly large, yes... but when pressed for details about the natural world, they knew little. The 'primitive' kids ended up knowing about butter, cars, tv, streets and tv's, because after all, by the fifties those things were everywhere --but it also happened they could identify hundreds upon hundreds of plants, animals, geological and meteorological characteristics and other such details of their surroundings. The list of objects and concepts they could identify turned out to be many times larger than the 'civilized' kids.

The thing about civilization is that knowledge becomes distributive and specialized.

Gives one pause to think about the idea of progress, doesn't it?

Answer 2

All dreams are there to become a reality and until it is a reality in your little world then it is only an illusion but illusions are created by dreams.
We can keep the illusion or make the dream come true so it may be an illusion to others (who don't believe in you, and those who don't have enough belief in themselves) but it is a dream to you, giving you hope.

We can also live where we have circumstantial illusions because we are blind to reality=what is going on around us

I create art based on my dreams, I wonder how many are just illusions, lol

Is it possible the 0 become a 8 so infinity was created with the 'what goes round comes round' theory, it is still a zero but held within 8 (time is confined with the 8) and with reflection we'd have 16.....boy this could take me to midnight to explain so gone! Lol


There seems to be a twist in every mystery, the little nothing sure took a twist to become something.....a 180 degree twist I'd say so now you have two halves of one thing and both working perfectly opposite to each other.

Answer 3

hmm some good answers! "
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"
Exellent! top answer in my opinion.
The universe is infinite but all that exists in it is not, to anyone who thinks the universe is finite, then what is beyond it?
Life is more or less an illusion even though for us living it it is a very real one! All is energy for a start, mater is composed of atoms which are inturn composed of electrons and nutrons which are basicaly just electricity. Matter traps energy and makes it appear inert.
Also the human mind makes up its own reality, my perception of life is very different to that of someone ellse. To me I see yellow as yellow only because my whole life I have been told this colour is yellow where as for someone ellse this colour could be green, but they still call it yellow because to them it has allways been called yellow. Get what I mean?
Schistophrenics are living proof that the mind makes up its own reality.
p.s N/inf=0 can't be right because 0 is an infinite number!
Mathmatically there 1-1=0 but in reality you never hit 0, just plus or minus 0

Answer 4

Your maths is entirely correct, however, you are applying maths to a metaphysical question, rather like teeing-off with a niblick, what!

I appreciate that many answers on these boards are facaetious, but the level of humour is frighteningly low and of the answers that, reading between the lines, purport to be serious indicate that your mathematics paint a fairly accurate and even more frightening picture as to the amount of true knowledge involved - ouch!

Answer 5

As inf is infinately big, N will appear very insignificantly small in relation to this. Nevertheless very very very small is still not zero when N/inf. So it is better to say that we know almost nothing about our surroundings. Also, since our planet is insignificantly small in comparision to the universe as a whole. then technically what we do know is more than enough.

Answer 6

But it's an illusion that keeps me happy - and I'm currently trying to improve my knowledge of quiz questions and find that many others share my illusions, but that's not a problem.

Answer 7

Very Zen. You're almost right. N/Infinity does not equal zero, it approaches zero. This is why teenagers think they know everything. They know a great deal about their surroundings, but as you get older, your surrounding expand, and the less, you realize, you know!

Answer 8

The only illusion is what 'you' know. From my perspective the only real knowledge is mine. All reality is defined by what interacts with my senses not yours. So my knowledge is real and yours is just an illusion.

Answer 9

I know that if you were to step in front of a moving bus, it would flatten you.

By your theory, that knowledge is wrong, so if you try it you should be fine:-)

Oh yes, you didn't mention that your theory actually doesn't work in the real world...

Answer 10

Your logic is flawed, the cosmos isn't infinite. Granted, there is a lot of it, but only in the same way that there are a lot of grains of sand on our planet.