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Ignorance is bliss (thumbsnap.com)
submitted 11 months ago by willya@lemmyf.uk to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[-] Timboflex@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

The "stuff you know" slice should be "stuff you think you know," and "stuff you know" should be a tiny sliver.

[-] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's fun asking kids, if 100 is knowing everything and zero is knowing nothing, how much do you know? And they'll answer something like 80 or 90.

Then you ask them how many words they know in the dictionary. Then you ask how many words they know in other languages. And then they realise they don't know much at all and agree the answer is something more like 0.0000000000001. (needs more zeros)

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And you could even argue that we can't really know if we can know anything, because we don't know if we are objective observers of the universe.

We can make it as philosophical as we want. Do you know that you can know anything with certainty?

The mind is a mindfuck.

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