(March 25, 2014 at 1:01 am)bennyboy Wrote: Okay, I'm with you now.There is a zen quote that goes something like “one leaf falling is not just one leaf but the whole of autumn.”
People often confuse what is known with what is believed. In fact, I'd argue that knowledge can ONLY be applied in context-- i.e. all knowledge is a belief accompanied by the sense that it is highly consistent with that context.
For example, I know my wife's name. In the context of walking around and living my mundane life, that's knowledge. However, does she really exist outside my experience of her? That, I cannot know, because now we're talking about a context which I cannot access. (because I access information only through my experiences)
If I look at a leaf I can think “This leaf is not everything…” because I know other things and put the leaf in context.
Sometimes I call it a contextual matrix sort of like the movie The Matrix.
But this is confusing stuff and I’m not that smart or educated so that makes it all the more confusing. I’m like an ant trying to understand Calculus.
