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Date Posted: 11:02:21 07/18/00 Tue
Author: SwimmingUpstream
Subject: Re: Knowledge is Intention
In reply to: Jonathan Gulson 's message, "Knowledge is Intention" on 10:58:48 07/18/00 Tue

Dear Jonathan,

Long time, no see. I'm glad you found your way here. (I'm going to test whether HTML really works on this site. So,
if this post looks queer, the answer is NO, HTML doesn't work here -- though it is supposed to.)

Now that science has mapped human life by coding DNA's 23 chromosomes, can we now claim
biology's end: that biology's purpose is realised.

Not fully realized yet, I think. The workings of the intellect are still elusive -- or are they?

just as geography has ended with a progression to an information society.

Geography is still with us dear friend. The isolation that would actually exist if it were truly at an end would be
unendurable to the soul. There is an element of Valued Place that requires personal propinquity, how else to notice
the gleam in another's eye?

In fact, has subjectivity ended.

Not yet, though the confusion arising out of our confounding subjectivity with relativity may put an end to it -- with
relativity commanding the field.

Are institutions which organise formal bodies of knowledge now redundant: their avenues of enquiry
returning them to a point which preceded them.

No. There will always be the question of separating good from bad and fact from data, a task beyond the
autodidact if he is confronted with all the information in the world.

If I know, I intend; and this intention is to know.

Can there be no unintentional learning? I wonder...

Kindest Regards

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Replies:

Re: Knowledge is Intention -- Jonathan Gulson, 11:03:38 07/18/00 Tue
- Re: Knowledge is Intention -- SwimmingUpstream, 11:06:10 07/18/00 Tue
  - Re: Knowledge is Intention -- Jonathan Gulson, 11:07:27 07/18/00 Tue
    - Re: Knowledge is Intention -- SwimmingUpstream, 11:10:36 07/18/00 Tue
      - Re: Knowledge is Intention -- Jonathan Gulson, 11:11:46 07/18/00 Tue
        Re: Knowledge is Intention -- SwimmingUpstream, 11:14:43 07/18/00 Tue
        Re: Knowledge is Intention -- Jonathan Gulson, 11:16:11 07/18/00 Tue