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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: koan who wrote (43950)10/11/2013 3:46:10 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 86355
 
A dozen? Crikey, you must know more about Einstein than he did about himself. <I have read a dozen biographies on Einstein(the latest by Walter Issacson) and spent the last 15 years studying physics as I feel that is the edge of knowledge.> Why the obsession?

There are edges of knowledge everywhere. It's understanding which is more tricky than knowledge. Understanding process is the hard part. As Einstein apparently said, knowledge is just knowing stuff. Imagination is what counts. I don't know the actual quotes. But I have always found that was true. While the stolid learners could learn lots of facts, they had trouble with imagination and thinking which were more my forte. It was such hard work to learn loads of stuff for hours on end.

The Global Alarmists mistake collecting data and "knowledge", even out there on the "edge of knowledge" for understanding. They think being a philatelist, numismatist, or lepidopterarist is science.

The last 15 years studying physics? You would know then that you can't teach an old dog new tricks - an important branch of physics. The physics of neurons. The physics of supra-somatic consciousness is the leading edge of knowledge, literally. How the four forces of the apocalypse and their wave functions link up to form thinking. What physics have you been studying? CO2, convection and thermometers?

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