We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom (2021)

Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ... by hosh on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:01PM (#34088809)

Yeah, what you're describing with the injury is a skill I'd call empathic absorption. A rib injury is fairly dramatic and eye-opening. I know someone who did something similar with scarlet fever.

It's good to see this surface up here, though it's the kind of stuff I discuss in other communities.

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Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ... by User23 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:57PM (#34089180)

I wrote a bunch of stuff, but then I deleted it and decided to just copy someone better at wording than me:

  There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

I view materialism much like Newtonian physics. It's a fine approximation for the situations you'll face almost all the time. I just choose not to wear it like a set of blinders, because I don't want to deny the evidence of my senses when they don't fit it.

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Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ... by paulryanrogers on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:04PM (#34089654)

Is this phenomenon reproduceable? Can it be experimentally verified?

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