"Knowledge" is not your own....FACT?

Question

All "knowledge" stems from other peoples knowledge which stems from others and so forth.....original thought is the key. We HAVE NO original thought simply due to the basic premise of ones original thought. Whoever had that original thought is a lucky sod.....we.....we're all plagiarists.

Answer 1

"Knowledge" is not your own....FACT?
All "knowledge" stems from other peoples knowledge which stems from others and so forth.....original thought is the key. We HAVE NO original thought simply due to the basic premise of ones original thought. Whoever had that original thought is a lucky sod.....we.....we're all plagiarists.

Sorry couldn't help the plagiarising

Answer 2

A well-trained mind is made up, so to speak, of all the minds of past ages: only a single mind has been educated during all that time. Bernard De Fontenelle

Yes, this is knowledge. If something is not like this then that is not knowledge. All knowledge, first of all, is referential and reliable; and all knowledge is relative, meaning that all we know or can know, we know on the basis of what we already know. The structure of knowledge is a continuous progression from the simplest to the most complex of facts, and it is also based upon gradual variation from one form to the next form. Knowledge of a seed for example contains the knowledge of it potential of becoming a tree and eventually producing many other similar seeds. We cannot know what a tree is until we know what a seed is. The gradual transitions between stages of all living things generate a consistent and reliable body of knowledge.

The more subtle form of knowledge is the knowledge of ideas and notions, questions can be asked – are our thoughts original, or, can they be original? Or, we just borrow them from other people, and so on. Where do they originate at the first place?

If I am ever able to answer these questions then surely, I would also be able to explain how this universe was created and most importantly by who. But without jumping right at the start of everything lets consider what is going on in our world as it is right now. In fact there is a lot that is going on. And this is the reason that we do not find a room, and even a possibility of anything new coming into our mind. What we know is sufficient to keep of originality virgins. What we know is what keeps us from knowing outside the domains of conventional knowledge. If there were a vacuum of knowledge anywhere, not presuppositions, assumptions, scholarly, speculations, inhibitions based upon past experiences and strongly formed opinions then it would have been possible to start everything from a scratch, a completely new beginning of knowing and seeing thing in the world.

Knowledge in fact an interface between our original self and the world around us, what we know is not exactly what it is out there. What we know is only in part what we see the rest is our own self. We all see, know and learn things differently. This is our first and only encounter with the originally in knowledge – our specific standpoint as a unique being. If we go beyond this in search of originality that we go outside the circle of rational knowledge and enter into the realms of awareness – subconscious realisation of ourselves and our surroundings. The light of a candle for example is its awareness but the things that become visible in its light constitute a body of knowledge for the candle.

The most important things about knowledge however is that it is all to do with thinking. Knowledge can give us new thoughts, as you say ‘stemming from others’; knowledge can helps us form and alter our opinions about the world. But when we search for the best and the closest in our mind, we realise that we are thinking on the behalf of the world – as you yourself realised this, that our thoughts are not exactly our own. If we then observe our thought and ask – who is thinking? This is place where we can find originality, but his is only the beginning, the beginning of a world where meanings are not fond in words and thoughts.

Answer 3

Yes. Part fact. This is a Marxian concept.

Every material thing that is produced is produced using certain things that had already existed before. Most every "idea" we think of or learn reading a book has already been thought. (He claimed this was part of the reason institutions like schools and even whole societies would "reproduce" ideologies rather than resist/rebel against them or try to create change or improvement.) But everything we _sense_, of course, everything we feel and experience in our bodies, is knowledge that is brand new and that can never be replicated or transferred.

Also, because we're stuck in a world of people from birth and there is no such thing as person-in-a-vacuum or person-outside-society, we have already _learned_ how to think. You could say that we never purely "think for ourselves" because we can never escape the influences of society and family and their subconscious effects on our thoughts.

Answer 4

Humans must be capable of at least the occasional marginally original thought. Someone had to be the first to balk at the universally accepted notion of the earth being flat.

If most of us are plagiarists, lets at least hope that we are skillful at plagiarizing the 'right' thing.

Answer 5

i think that you confuse information with knowledge.
information is just data that is unprocessed,
while knowledge is data that has been processed.
when knowledge needs to be reaccessed,
then it is treated as data and is processed in a different way.
information is there, but the way you process it is the key to originality and creativity.
like if 10 people have 1 pound of clay each to do whatever they want, you will have 10 different things from the same clay.
God bless,
gabe

Answer 6

You seem to be greatly confused about plagiarism and the originality. I suggest you read the legal definition of plagiarism. Also, haven't you heard that no two people can think exactly alike? So essentially all thoughts are original.

Answer 7

I suggest you do a little bit more adapting and translating. If you think that requires no thought and knowledge, then you have another think coming.

Your statement is like saying that because all trees come from a seed, they are made up of no more matter than the seed is. Patently ridiculous. Sorry.

Answer 8

All knowledge comes from within your own heart. We do not "Learn" From others or books,these things only serve to put you on a vibratory level of what you wish to know, then you can "see" the light. All understanding come from within, you just "rediscover" what was there all the time. All things are but God expressing his vision of himself. See romans 1-19/20

Answer 9

Of course we learn from others that is our very nature, but we do have original knowledge, we `invent ` things ourselves. I have thoughts that no other person has, because they are peculiar to me, if I write a story it is peculiar to me, even although another person taught me how to read and write.

Answer 10

you all think of knowledge as an "idea". like "you can have original idea s or you can t" but if you think of knowledge as a commodity a commodity that trumps any currency, than yes, knowledge is everyone s. it exists to be shared and spread. and DONT mistake knowledge for raw information. the difference between them is this, if you tell a child to turn the key of a car, and mash the gas peddle, that is NOT teaching him how to drive. while explaining how the gas peddle makes the car go forward/backward and turning the wheel helps direct the car is (to a limited extent) teaching a child how to drive. so it is not enough just to spread information, but you have to process/help process that information. so, as a higher life form it is your obligation to help with the spread of knowledge so that your knowledge might not be your own.