The Ultimate (and maybe unecessary) Reflection

So, it turns out that I was wrong, yet again... Maybe? Probably.

Introducing the why...
According to the course guide, and various comments from other students, we are supposed to compile all our comments and reflect upon what we have learned. Now, since I have not commented on any other blog, I assumed that I would be spared from this last assignment.

But, since I am shrouded in uncertainty, I feel that it is better to be safe than sorry, and thus I will be writing a reflection as to what I have learned from this course. This will obviously be presented in a comfortably vague, rather broad and a bit exaggerating form.


To get to the when...
It all started, much like for anyone else participating, with the beginning of this course. In retrospect, hindsight if you may, when reflecting on what could very well have been, I am once again thankful for the fact that I had read some of Kant's work. This meant that on the first seminar, to which much confusion was to be had anyway, I was able to further the frustrating brain-mashing process of trying to understand Pure Reason, by simply asking questions.

Philosophy is good and all, and although it is a great interest of mine, I still to this day claim that the main benefit of that particular field is to provide mental exercises for your mind.

Moving on, during the subsequent weeks we managed to mow through a couple of other interesting historical figures and their respective thoughts, everything from the revolutionary potential of culture to the repressive nature of regular film. Thus, I was firmly placed in my place to stay somewhat placid for the rest of the course, simply because I had to climb down from my high horse and read up on every new theme just like everybody else.

As time went on I, if I may say so myself, did an okay job trying to contribute somewhat well thought out, if yet always complicating, questions. In that way,  through raw cunning, I managed to make others far more suited than I, come up with the actual solutions, from which I derived my conclusions.


By observing where...
So where am I now? Not in the boring everyday physical sense, but rather in general know-how and state of mind. Well, I am at least further ahead, even if I cant really tell you in what direction. I know where I was six weeks ago, certainly, and I must admit I have a hinge as to the current direction, but let me for the sake of things be specific.

I am at the last year of my studies, slowly approaching the end to one of the greatest chapters of my life. Right now it seems to be ending on the note of an extremely teasing cliffhanger, although there are still a few pages to be laid out before I know for sure.


Something provided the answer to what...
So what is knowledge? Okay, I agree, by now this is a cliché-esque question of grandeur, and a question to which the actual answer, if ever at all found, may not even be interesting. For the sake of this reflection I will obviously make an attempt, but it might not be mind-blowing.

As always, I like to view and define things from a practical standpoint, I know shocker right? Thus I have come up with the following, semi-well phrased non-perfect ad hoc definition:

"An understanding which an entity possess that is used to take an effective action in order to achieve said entity's goal(s)."

I admit, at first , this might not feel all-encompassing (I told you it would not be mind-blowing). But, if you take closer look, this simple sentence actually implies a great deal. First of, by the stated possesive case, i.e. the entity, we understand that this knowledge is indeed specific to the entity which created it. Furthermore, we realise that knowledge is a means to an end, the idea that knowing something is only regarded as knowledge, if it provides some sort of information we previously did not have or even more commonly did not define.


And finally benefiting whom?
Seeing said solution, seemingly sound, speciously someone's sapience states supplication saying suspicion. So, showing significance staying sure, someone sending said signal seeks solace seen specifically since soon.


Or is there something I am not telling you right now? Maybe I know more than I let on, maybe I knowing known knowledge is just the tip of the iceberg?

If you read this post more then once, you might just figure it out.


Ohh, and if you do:

We'll take in a quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.