What is Knowledge
Knowledge is understanding. However, understanding knowledge (or what has been understood) is not so simplistic. Many scientist and psychologist have tried to understand how we are capable of gaining knowledge. The philosophers are the ones who ask the fundamental question of what exactly knowledge is. They want to know how it becomes available to us, and how we individually process it. With every answer to this question comes a criticism, and with every criticism comes another idea. To Blandshard, knowledge is to try to understand what is unknown. He believes that "to think is to seek understanding," meaning that as humans, every thing or situation we encounter we try to understand it. That is why over time we have asked so many questions. It is human nature to want to know not only why something occurs, but how. Long ago humans looked at birds and wondered why they flew rather than walked, but we did not stop there. We wanted to know how they were able to physically take flight and now, today we too are able to fly. Blandshard states that thought is "immanent" as well as "transcendent". Our own thoughts exist is our minds and surpass all usual limits in order for us to understand something.
As stated above, even if we don't know what is real, and what is a dream and what is not, or if our brain is in a vat, life goes on. If suddenly, as humans we could transport ourselves through time or fly wherever we want, you would think that cars and buildings would have changed along with our personal advancement. My Dad was really confused and asked me to explain. Descarte could never be deceived by his own knowledge of the fact that he was able to produce thought, therefore, that is all that he trusted. What good would it do to know that my thoughts are purely the react!ion of someone or something manipulating different parts of my brain? If I knew all my thoughts were just manipulations of my brain then there would not be anything I could do about it. The times when you wake up and are not sure that you went to school naked for real or not, you have a slight feeling that it could have been a dream. Descarte does not care if he sees the grass orange and everyone else sees it green, it exists orange for him and all he needs to know is that it is grass. I never suffered any mental illnesses from what I had thought hap!pened to me, and I continued living a normal life. I find it quite scary actually how many different theories and thoughts there are. How can we be certain if our true lives are our everyday lives, or if they are the ones that we call "dreaming"? Our everyday thoughts and experiences could just be thoughts. Many people can look at a cloud and clearly see dragon as well as a giant crab, there is no one right answer. As human beings we have absolutely no idea of what we are physically! or just mentally experiencing. The only way we are capable of telling that (most likely) what we dreamed while we were asleep did not physically occur to us, is that once awake we realize that the sequence of our dream was off. In other words, if I were to really have contact with another human or their brain, then they could not exist how we see ourselves existing, in control of our own actions. When I dream, I think that I am actually seeing (feeling, smelling, tasting for that matter) but I am not.
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