To know everything...

[ZenRaiden]

What if the purpose of our brain is to know. That knowing is the purpose of this machine we have then perhaps seeking knowledge is the meaning of life.

If meaning of life is to know.... the very question of what is to know is meaningless, because the cause of our being is to expand on knowlegde by means of knowing and using logic as a tool to maximise the purpose of our knowing.

The problems however I see are several.

First of all what is the meaning of knowing for the sake of knowing.
Expanding our knowledge base is probably perpetuated only by our own desires and wishes. What we want and what we like.

Here comes the fun part. What if we always perpetuate the knowledge base by wanting to know more. Therefore wanting to know more means we will have to have a purpose in life because there is no knowledge without purpose.

Lets think of it as if we are catching fish and the fishing rod is knowledge. The purpose of the fishing rod is only in case fish exist and in case we want to catch the fish. Therefore the whole burden of our existence is on knowing.

Now I know that people do not live only for the sake of knowledge, but there are other reasons, but what if the aim to know more is the very thing that frees people from living a pathetic life thus stops them from doing things without knowledge.

Not sure if this makes any sense.

 

[TimeAsylums]

What if the purpose of our brain is to know

u better start raeding moar then

 

[Grayman]

What if the purpose of our brain is to know.

The first part of your statment is wrong and it could in effect change your view of the rest of your statements.

The 'original' purpose of the brain is to persue life. This is the core of any living person. To not have this goal is to die. I believe that it possible for people to elevate a goal higher than this when they grow and change themselves.

To 'know' is a value that you have and not everyone. For some 'knowing' is just a step to obtaining a greater goal.

The mind persues knowledge that is rewarding because the reward is supposed to be an indication of being beneficial.

 

[BigApplePi]

u better start raeding moar then

It is ritten that the moar that is ritten the moar is nown by those who have ritten. Therefore raeding what is ritten will make nown more of what is ritten by those who raed.

 

[Base groove]

Sometimes when you try to nail it down or pinpoint the truth about something that something loses its entire essence.

 

[BigApplePi]

Sometimes when you try to nail it down or pinpoint the truth about something that something loses its entire essence.

The truth should not be blamed, especially if an attempt is made to nail it down with a pin. My Q is, when an entire essence is lost, where the heck does it go???

 

[Base groove]

My Q is, when an entire essence is lost, where the heck does it go???

Then it was never there.

 

[Helvete]

The only reason to learn and gain knowledge is the basic need for survival. We can learn indefinitely as the stimulus around us has the potential to change and put us in positions where we have to adapt. As things aren't as primitive as that, the need to learn is more or less redundant. You can get by now being thick as shit. There isn't a meaning of life, only a means for survival.

 

[ZenRaiden]

The first part of your statment is wrong and it could in effect change your view of the rest of your statements.

The 'original' purpose of the brain is to persue life. This is the core of any living person. To not have this goal is to die. I believe that it possible for people to elevate a goal higher than this when they grow and change themselves.

To 'know' is a value that you have and not everyone. For some 'knowing' is just a step to obtaining a greater goal.

The mind persues knowledge that is rewarding because the reward is supposed to be an indication of being beneficial.

I wasn't discarding the possibility of using knowledge. On the contrary. I am just saying that achieving goals is a side effect of having knowledge.

Our brian is naturally curious and whants to understand things. One may lose this kind of curiousity, but people are always born with curiousity and want to know things. not sure where I am going with this, but in short the brian is made to know. IF knowing is the purpose of the brian then understanding that knowledge is the key goal of our brain may give people more access to knowledge that was otherwise not accessable. I am seaking abstractly here of course.