The issue is to assume that…

Oct 05, 2024

The issue is to assume that through that “study” - and that’s a can of worms on its own - it necessarily follows that systematizing the lived experience into some information system will render any greater insight. For example, it is clear that explaining all about a sport like basketball doesn’t make the person that doesn’t practice that sport into a good basketball player. Learning, as a form of encyclopedic knowledge, is not a complete knowledge. The same reason as simply reading about religion is not the same as practicing a religion. The Truth is not encoded into systems of knowledge, but in lived experience, and trying to convey it through systematization is always a lower resolution version of that.