Everything we talk of today, yesterday and tomorrow are all matters after the human race came into existence. After the mind came into existence. After the thought came into existence. So the very first thing (early) man knew, was because he thought it before. Now when I say thought, I mean the processing of sensory information, the emotion and maybe even the reasoning involved. The thought preceded the knowledge, which was anyway subjective and biased because of perceptional, lingual and genetic individual differences which are present at all times. And again, where do these differences take root? The mind. So for knowledge to become something objective and perceptionally immune, the mind needs to be eliminated. But the existence of knowledge came with that of man and his mind, his tool. So could you say that universally true knowledge was that abstract quantity that existed before life? It existed before the creation of the mind when the universe was a mass of energy? When it could not be proved false and was certain because there was nothing to change it? Did we kill knowledge? The only con of this idea is that it defeats the purpose of knowledge. Wait. What is the purpose of knowledge? Is it to assist life? Or is it just neutral, a spectator? If it were to cushion and cause our every step then yes, it does play the role of God, whose absence and presence have decisive consequences, assisting and hindering us
But the idea of knowledge existing before we did, lead me to link it up with a theory on energy. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed; it is always converted from one form to another. Can the same be said for knowledge? Knowledge cannot be created nor destroyed, but is continuously being converted from one form to another? ….
2 comments:
I think you agree with the classicists (if I am not mistaken) They believe in the existence of a Master world (which is like the Slide master in Ms Powerpoint). So whatever exists on earth, there will be a structure and form range defined for it in the Master World.
So if there is a horse on earth, there are clearly defined aspects of a horse in the Master World, which the horse structure follows. It cannot be that some horse suddenly sprouts a 5th leg all of a sudden. I think this theory is well explained in the book "Sophie's World" by Jostien Gaarder. (It was there on the reading list). I think I agree with you Rathod.
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