how would you feel if a day passed you without learning anything?
I’d feel as though I had taken a vacation.
I’d be dead.
I wouldn’t feel anything.
Learning is the input of data into our senses… we can’t turn it off even if we don’t constantly sit there thinking ‘I learned something new’ or else… indeed we would never learn anything new!
r u constantly thinking of things which have value…?
or just useless information…?
How would you feel if you unlearned something every day?
It’s ‘dead’ information that we convert into social meaning.
tis why i write, inorder to avoid that feeling…
and i have forgotten a great deal… i regret it… i had a few books about animals almost completely memorised, as a child i would constantly read about animals, i knew all the phylums, classes and many animals names… i practically memorised almost all the animals in two 2thousand page 'Animal Dictionary’s
and a few other smaller books
i am now reading about them again, and this subject its much easier to learn now…
a day passing by which i unlearn something, it should reduce me to a <potato soon enough
social meaning, is this the idea which all your thoughts revolve?
w.e
there is a balance, there always is
you cant just be all towards social meaning
your thoughts must also make you smarter, and even when we socialise we could share thoughts giving both people the knowledge of 2 people each.
and if you disagree for social reasons, choose better friends
Hass,
What I mean by social meaning is that nearly all of the value we put into our thoughts is echoed through the social continuum back to ourselves. The very fact that you know how to speak a human language seems to be indicative of this. A person who grew up in the wilderness would have a different ‘society’ in which he draws meaning from, namely nature, at least in the traditional sense.
It’s not solely ‘talking to someone’ but rather the comparative derivation of what actually facilitates this ability in the first place. All the information comes in, and it is run through our established neural networks which then sorts the vast amount of information in the manner specific to our individual. I look at a forest and I see abstract thought, stories and such. The person born in the wilderness would see, perhaps, an animal trail, broken sticks, whatever – it would be fairly different because we both have a different conception of what constitutes different kinds of truths, the societal ones. Most everything else is either pragmatic or genetic.
When you really break it down, it’s not so much about ‘learning’ from day to day, but rather listening closely enough to all the information coming in.
oooo, well nicely put
so let me rephrase my question…
how would you feel if a day passed by, and you were exactly the same as the last day?
I think that would mean you couldn’t remember the day before you. You’d be trapped permanently in the present, unable to cognize the future and unable to remember the past (if you remember something, you can say you “learn” it).
So I think it might be a bit like a cross between being mentally handicapped and being Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.
uve never wasted a day?
even a vacation?
where you just learned nothing valuable?
No I haven’t. 
how would you feel if a day passed by, and you were exactly the same as the last day?
i would feel of the same mind that i did feel the last day obviously, most of the time people dont change drammaticlly enough in 1 day and feel noticabley different, if ur asking if u felt like u completely wasted a day how would you feel ? then pissed off is my answer but it depends on the circumstances just like every else…
okay…
thank you all for telling me what you think, and sharing with me your perspectives.
…Are you shitting me. “Make you smarter” !!!
Sorry, I had to blink at this. Then I had to stab my eyes out with a spork.
One second while I compose myself, clean up the blood, and try again.
Alright…your thoughts don’t make you smarter. If you can think on something, it means its already inside that skull of yours…that, or you forgot to put on your tinfoil hat.
By the time you can think of something, you already have the knowledge available in some form or another. And, so long as there’s sensory perception, you’re acumulating knowledge. None of its useless, when brought into context.
All thinking does is organize that knowledge for better reference, and bring to light points about it that initial scanning missed.
Abstract thinking is perhaps the only point in which this is not strictly true, and abstract thinking still can not “make you smarter”…because, by sheer value of the abstract, it must be processed and verified against external stimuli…otherwise you’re simply diluding yourself with plausible fancy.
Sorry to sound so annoyed at this, but this misconception bugs me. Its the dark side of intellectualism…“I think, therefore I am holier than thou”
Geeze, get down to the dirty life. Take a day to take in nothing but junk, and let your mind process it. You’ll learn something from that junk, grow wiser…but not smarter.
Has the distinction set in yet? I hope so…
(Ends rant, appologizes to all who are blinking and or shaking their head in annoyance)
wudnt it b wiser to attain all the knowledge you can from every single thought of yours
when you think about a chain on a desk, you will become more familiar with it there for making you smarter, your mind is infinitely complex, but people must analyze the abstract thought and be able to take everything they can from it, but some knowledge would be useless to different people, for people do not always have similiar perspectives on life…
my point in this is there is a balance, it is small… but important, first times always the hardest, to break the balance, then it becomes easier and easier.
“All thinking does is organize that knowledge for better reference, and bring to light points about it that initial scanning missed.”
scanning would also be thinking
and not having knowledge does not mean it wasnt organised
In some situations, ignorance really is bliss. If you were able to select one thing each day to unlearn, it would be great.
Like I was in heaven, as I would then know I know everything.
I think its neccessary to unlearn and relearn everything at some points in life. Every decade or so a philosopher needs to become nihilistic so his beliefs don’t become dogmatic.