How do I know what I know?

Answer 1

By putting yourself to the specific situations and circumstances.

Answer 2

The significance of learning something new triggers your brain to store the information so that you don't forget it. If it weren't for your brain, first of all, you wouldn't be alive. Second, you would have no way of remembering things teachers, parents, or just friends tell you.

The reason that people are smart is because they open themselves to learning. For example, the person in class who's at the front of the room taking notes and asking questions is open to learning, they want to take all the knowledge in. The person in the back, however, who's not participating, apart from the occasional cough of sniff, is not opening themselves to learning. They have no interest in taking in new information, which is why they often refuse to pay attention.

It's all personal preference. If you want to know, then you open yourself to learning. If you don't want to know, then you don't open yourself to learning. If you don't care, then I'm not really sure what that is!

Answer 3

I believe that knowing has much to do with memory and our ability to access memory..
The theory is:
All activity, mental physical etc. is recorded in vast memory waves that float about like radio waves. What we have is a receiver and we when we need information our brain stimulates or turns on the receiver and the neurons involved absorb the information and distributes it to the part of the brain or the muscle that is trying to begin or complete a task. We are originally assigned only our own memories but sometimes we access others memories. I think about this question a lot. It is intriguing. We obviously do not have the room in our brains to hold all that we know so the only answer is a memory stored outside ourselves that is available to all of us.

Answer 4

Each time you have any sort of experience your brain becomes damaged by the "ramming of sensory input" this is why brains are "wrinkled" that is why traumas are remembered more clearly than say tying your shoes this morning. (Trauma is like a truck slamming into your head, trivial things are like a mosquito) When you forget something its actually your brain repairing it self! That is also why people who come out of prolonged comas are sometimes child like and have to relearn everything! They didn't dream while they were out and their brain almost repaired completely.

Long and Short of it ...the more you know the more your brain is damaged!

Answer 5

Knowledge is the cultural repetition of ideas. These ideas are stored in your brain as what scientists are calling 'memes' which are said to be similar to genes. Everything other than the natural functioning of your body through DNA is forced on you by cultural conditioning. This knowledge has been accumulating and splitting since man fist thought he was separate from nature.

Answer 6

You have acquired knowledge and experience through trial and error. Like every one your life is governed by getting your needs fulfilled. Without that, we are just a bunch of cells.

Answer 7

By knowing what you does not know

Answer 8

You know what you know because of your you have tested your knowledge. Can it be detected with your five senses? If so, this is a valid source of knowledge. Can it be reasoned? You know if you put your hand in a fire it will get burned. You can reason this without detecting it with your five senses and getting burned. This is a valid source of knowledge. Lastly, you know what you know because of "divine madness"? You know God exists not because you can detect Him with your five senses or reason that He MUST exist, but something beyond your understanding is going on. Your not for sure what it is but you still consider it a valid source of knowledge. I DO NOT BELIEVE DIVINE MADNESS TO BE A VALID SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE, THOUGH. I do believe in the first two, though. Divine Madness is too prone to imaginative answers so it cannot be trusted to be a valid source of knowledge. Does that help?

Answer 9

Actually, it's super tempting to say, like Aristotle, that what you know is what you DON'T know... I think that's accurate. I especially think about when someone is trying to describe him/herself... can't find the right words... doesn't really know who she/he is.
Have them talk about the last place their visited (you can do that!). By stating how everything is *different* there, you'll be able to find out what's so *different* about where *you* live. Same for people: talk about the people you love, people you hate, people you admire... and see what's so different about them... it'll give you insights about yourself...
In short: differential diagnosis. That's how you know! By testing the limits...

Answer 10

You test yourself by asking questions to yourself and answering them. You can also reflect on a topic and kinda talk about it with others and there you can see how much you've learned