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Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things
Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things

Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things

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Naval Ravikant
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Mar 22, 2021
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The value is in the knowledge and the knowledge is inside the observer in the Creator. In other words the human it's not inside. The thing itself. For example oil is useless unless you know how to refine it burn it and use it for combustion information is useless unless there's a brain there to receive it. There could be a signal broadcasting English into outer space. But if there isn't a creature capable of understanding what that language is how it works in who's conveying it then it's just modulated electromagnetic frequencies that don't mean anything so
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So a lot of the information a lot of the value is within a particular knowledge bearing entity as science grows, its reach we've gotten to a very reductive science where we break things down into smaller and smaller pieces. And then we try and explain things on the basis of that and there is a counter Trend in science, which is complexity Theory we talked about emergent properties and higher level systems where we're starting to now look at systems as they operate chaotically and unpredictably at a micro level, but at a macro level we can make certain statements about them.
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That do have explanatory power. So humans are unique in our capability to understand
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