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KNOWLEDGE

TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE All knowledge types are stored in memory and provide the knowledge

base that makes life possible.

If a tiny bacterium had no knowledge about where food was, it wouldsurely die.

At the human level we must process huge amounts of data from MESTinto knowledge of our surroundings before we can even stand up andwalk.

MEST gives us direct knowledge that humans used for millions of years.

It was only when we learned to talk and write that we discoveredinformation.

It was probably very shortly after the first words were spoken that thefirst lie was told and humans discovered the true/false nature ofknowledge and information.

MEST is an acronym used in Scientology and coined by author L. RonHubbard. Hubbard used the first letters of the words matter, energy,space and time, the component parts of the physical universe. Writingsand lectures by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard frequently use theterm MEST in place of the phrase "the physical universe".

KNOWLEDGE DEFINITION

Knowledge is defined in the OxfordEnglish Dictionary as:-

Expertise, and skills acquired by aperson through experience oreducation; the theoretical or practicalunderstanding of a subject,

What is known in a particular field or intotal; facts and information or

Awareness or familiarity gained byexperience of a fact or situation.

Knowledge acquisition involvescomplex Cognitive processes:Perception, Learning, Communication,Association and Reasoning.

The term knowledge is also used tomean the confident Understanding of asubject with the ability to use it for aspecific purpose if appropriate.

DIRECT KNOWLEDGE

Direct-knowledge is

firsthand experience with

data received through

sensors like seeing,

hearing, and feeling,

smelling and tasting.

Something feels hot, looks

blue, tastes bitter, or smells

bad are all data that can be

remembered as Direct-

knowledge

INDIRECT KNOWLEDGE

Indirect-knowledge isknowledge acquired byprocessing information.The processes ofthinking, andunderstanding produceindirect knowledge.

Indirect-knowledge issecond-hand and can notalways be trustedbecause it depends onhow the knowledge wasunderstood in the firstplace.

INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE

Intuitive-knowledge isknowledge stored insubsystem memory that isnot accessible to the higherbrain functions.

Intuitive-knowledge may bestored in DNA or a motor-control subsystem like theknowledge that controlswalking.

The autonomic nervoussystem uses intuitiveknowledge to operate ourbasic bodily functions.

PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE

Procedural-knowledge is

the how-to instructions that

tell step by step how to do

something.

Procedural-knowledge is

like a recipe or computer

program, it is a list of

instructions needed to

perform a specific task.

Procedures are a

sequence of knowledge

events spaced out in time

QUESTIONS

Questions are knowledge

in search of knowledge.

A question is like a void of

knowledge that needs to

be filled.

Questions can be stored

in memory just like any

other knowledge.

Questions can initiate

procedures to acquire the

questioned knowledge.

DECISIONS

Decisions are made of acombination of proceduralknowledge andquestions.

The question can causethe procedure to changewith respect to theanswer to the question.

Knowledge of decisionscan be a historical recordof why certain procedureswere executed in acertain way.

INFORMATION

Information is a type ofknowledge used to communicateother knowledge, and may ormay not contain the knowledgeactually communicated.

The information 'that's hot' impliesthe communication of some directknowledge about someunspecified thing being hot.

Information uses languages thatcome in the form of Physical,Functional, or Symbolic.

A wave of a hand or a spokenword communicates information.A type of behavior alsocommunicates information.

Written and spoken languagesare symbolic forms of information

FIXED

Fixed-knowledge is

knowledge that comes

from information in

books or in DNA

sequences that can not

be changed.

Laws and constitutions

are written examples of

the use of fixed

knowledge to establish

standards of behavior

DYNAMIC

Dynamic-knowledge isknowledge that is moving andchanges with time like theposition of the sun.

Dynamic-knowledge can betracked with mathematicalequations, clocks, or by othermeans.

Dynamic-knowledge is alwayschanging and therefore can notbe stored directly in memory.

Knowing that things arechanging may be all theknowledge necessary about agiven subject

TRUE or FALSE

The concept of true and falseknowledge can act as apreamble to other types ofknowledge.

An optical illusion can producefalse direct knowledge.

False indirect knowledge isevident when someone lies toyou. False knowledge comesfrom misunderstanding, lying,miscommunication, or nonsense.

True knowledge is usually thedirect type but indirectknowledge can be proven truewith logic or mathematics.

A trick question could beconsidered false knowledge ifthere is no possible answer

CONTRADICTION

A contradiction is a type of

knowledge used to change

the state of some other

knowledge from True to

False or from False to

True.

Contradictions are used as

a tool to decide whether

certain knowledge is

logically true or false

PREDICTION

A prediction or conjecture

is knowledge of the future

developed from processing

current knowledge.

Our brain can process

dynamic knowledge to

predict where we should

be to catch a ball.

We can also use our

experience (knowledge) to

predict the most likely

outcome of current events

NONSENSE

Nonsense is knowledge thatresults from informationpurposely or inadvertentlyscrambled so that itconfuses the brain.

There are billions of reamsof nonsense printed eachday and it is very confusing.

True knowledge can evenappear as nonsense if theinformation ismisunderstood.

Indirect knowledge takenout of context also producesnonsense.

NO KNOWLEDGE or THE END

The End is the empty-set ofknowledge where noknowledge exists.

Like the number zero is avery important place markeror indicator.

The End marks the end of astream of knowledge.

If you say, 'I don't know' thatis a statement that you havereached the end of yourknowledge on that subject.

All knowledge-basedsystems require an endstatement to organize theirmemory structures

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