If someone were to sit you down in front of a computer and get you to write everthing you know, how long would it take you, where would you start?
2006-08-23 05:37:21 · 23 answers · asked by Bass 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Would you stop learning if you were only ever looking back on what you already know?
As for defining "know", the fact that you can write a paragraph on the defintion of knowledge shows me that you think there are different types of knowledge....that should give you a few days of writing.
2006-08-23 06:42:26 · update #1
I envisage an empty room with just computer which you couldn't leave until you were done - i think that there would come a point when i would finish - simply because there would be a limit to how much more i could learn in a atmosphere like that....although you would learn how you cope with a mamouth (or even impossible) task and also a lot by re -examining what you know or thought you knew......
2006-08-23 06:48:02 · update #2
I probably write down the various events that I could remember that happened throughout my life and then would go on to explain what I have learnt and gained in my knowledge due to these events. There would be nothing else to write as events/situations or actions are the only things that can bring you to learn.
2006-08-23 05:41:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
phew what a concept. I'd want to know their definition of 'know' - is it knowledge, or experience, or personal interpretation? Is it who we know, or what we know, or where we know? Or what we remember? Concrete, abstract, emotion or senses and where does personal observation come into that? I know that I don't like peanut butter because it tastes vile and the one time I got made to eat it I threw up - but another person would claim to have a different knowledge and experience of it. Then I know my dad as my dad, but other people would know him in different ways - from the man who lives at number 30, to the guy I used to work with etc etc. Then, I know 4 times 4 is 16. And so on and so forth. So depending on what was defined as "everything I know" would depend how long it would take me to write it. Without that basic bit of the picture the only thing I do know is that I don't know how long it would take or where I would start! - Confused? That makes two of us! ;-)
2006-08-23 12:56:46 · answer #2 · answered by janebfc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question.
I think I could write forever since as I write it is somewhat revealing of new things. So for me writing is a process of learning and vice versa. When you actually think of all the things you know and write them down, you will uncover even more things you know and it goes on. So I would start with my childhood, family, thoughts, dreams, fears, moments, memories, theories, everyday things, philosophies, there is no limit to the thoughts you can investigate. . etc.
2006-08-23 13:52:32 · answer #3 · answered by livelaughlove 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not possible!
when we are young children, before language develops, our memories use a visual device called the 'visuo - spatial scratchpad'
As we get older and our linguistic memories take precedence, we lose the ability to access this memory system. This is why we don't remember much from our very young childhood. The memories and knowledge are still there somewhere, but we cannot access them.
So we cannot possibly write down everything we 'know.'
Good stuff isn't it?
2006-08-23 13:00:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would take a very long time!! Not only because I know so much, but because I would have to remember everything I know! I am not saying that I am super smart, but I mean there is stuff from Kindergarten I would have to write all the way up to the stuff I know now... which is a lot!!!!!!!!!
2006-08-23 13:19:06 · answer #5 · answered by jlee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would take me the rest of my life, because you learn something new every day... and the things I have learned in over my 24 years is to long to type or write... You just have to know who you are and what it is that you will and will not stand for...
2006-08-23 13:37:47 · answer #6 · answered by Shonda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Phew, probably the rest of my life, at my age the best thing for me to do is to write everything down in journals so I can remember it if I need to refer back to it again, I have journals going back 25 years so guess if I collated it all I might have a best seller.
2006-08-23 20:17:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would take me most of the rest of my life, just to make the first draft of jumbled thoughts and facts in my head, and I'm only 23. I can't imagine how someone much older than me would be able to finish by the time they die.
2006-08-23 13:10:11 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Infinate really. Because as you're working at the computer, you'll always be needing to write down what you did three minutes ago, what you see, feel, hear, etc. It would be endless.
2006-08-23 13:40:20 · answer #9 · answered by JustineTime 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A very long time, but it would take me even longer to write down everything I don't know!
2006-08-23 14:56:05 · answer #10 · answered by ice.mario 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋