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@ Satoshis Nephew
2025-03-03 10:11:35
Knowledge has great value for us, both in the biological and social domains. We admire and cling so much to knowing because humanity has advanced by virtue of its growing body of knowledge. Since prehistory, our basic physical survival has demanded that we swiftly categorize all incoming information. Knowing how to avoid danger or defeat an enemy, where to obtain food or material for tools, and how to construct a dwelling or heal a sickness were all necessary for staying alive.
Although the dangers associated with physical survival may have eased a bit over time, our increasingly more complicated social structures demand an ever-expanding range of knowledge. The stakes are high in our social survival. What we “know”—or appear to know—not only creates our sense of identity, it also establishes our place in the community, which determines the degree of access we have to all that we need in order to survive, both socially and physically.
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