Information Vs. Knowledge
exploring the difference between information, knowledge, and wisdom
sari and
Information Vs. Knowledge
Impact.
In order to think the intelligent, informed, original thoughts we’re capable of, we can’t rely on the brain alone. We have to think outside the brain.
Annie Murphy Paul • The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of
... See more
“Wisdom is the distilled essence of all of the details.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson