RE: James Webb
January 29, 2022 at 6:43 pm
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2022 at 6:49 pm by Anomalocaris.)
pure knowledge forms the pool from which practical knowledge can be drawn when needed.
the sort of practical knowledge that is drawn from the pool of pure knowledge is usually not obtainable at all if one only narrowly search for knowledge based on immediate need.
so yes, if you value practical knowledge when it would do the most good, then value the expansion of the pool of pure knowledge that made much of the practical obtainable at all when it was needed.
it is not a choice between looking back to the beginning of the universe or else kill people unnecessarily.
it is choice between encouraging the acquisition of practical knowledge by enlarging the pool of pure knowleging, or letting the acquisition of practical knowledge become ever more circumscribed abs slowly ground to a halt by the drawing down of the pool of untapped pure knowledge.
the sort of practical knowledge that is drawn from the pool of pure knowledge is usually not obtainable at all if one only narrowly search for knowledge based on immediate need.
so yes, if you value practical knowledge when it would do the most good, then value the expansion of the pool of pure knowledge that made much of the practical obtainable at all when it was needed.
it is not a choice between looking back to the beginning of the universe or else kill people unnecessarily.
it is choice between encouraging the acquisition of practical knowledge by enlarging the pool of pure knowleging, or letting the acquisition of practical knowledge become ever more circumscribed abs slowly ground to a halt by the drawing down of the pool of untapped pure knowledge.
