How We Know What We Know
These days, I am interested in cognitive science. Cognitive scientists research about how people receive, analyze, and reproduce information and knowledge. This field is interdisciplinary, so cognitive scientists are required to know philosophy, anthropology, history, psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, physics, and computer science. Especially, this field is closely related to epistemology (In this field, philosophers think about how we know what we know.)
Anyway, this novel really hits me, because it reminds me of cognitive science and epistemology. This novel makes me think about validity and accuracy of human history and science. How can we know where we were from? How can we figure out the origin of our knowledge? These questions are significant for cognitive scientists and for expansion of our knowledge.
This book says that we learned our basic knowledge or survival skills, such as making a fire, from an alien folk, Loric. Probably you have heard of some serious scientific research results that there are some stones or rocks from Mars or moon in Antarctica. What do those research results mean to us? Do those results suggest that our knowledge might come from Loric or some kinds of alien outside of the earth?
So far, scientists could not find out how we have formed our knowledge. They guess that we have gradually developed survival skills and those gained skills became our basic knowledge. Then, question arises, how we could survive in the first place? In other words, who did give us that basic survival knowledge? If there are aliens who are more advanced so that they can gave knowledge to us, then how could they originally get their knowledge? Who gave that knowledge to that alien? Oh... I am scary...
"That's how world works", or "it always have been like that", these kinds of answers do not answer this question. What do you think about this page? I will wait for your respond!
p.s. Do you want to know what my answer is? Think about a person who sacrificed his life and arose from the dead. I hope it would be enough... :)
Anyway, this novel really hits me, because it reminds me of cognitive science and epistemology. This novel makes me think about validity and accuracy of human history and science. How can we know where we were from? How can we figure out the origin of our knowledge? These questions are significant for cognitive scientists and for expansion of our knowledge.
This book says that we learned our basic knowledge or survival skills, such as making a fire, from an alien folk, Loric. Probably you have heard of some serious scientific research results that there are some stones or rocks from Mars or moon in Antarctica. What do those research results mean to us? Do those results suggest that our knowledge might come from Loric or some kinds of alien outside of the earth?
So far, scientists could not find out how we have formed our knowledge. They guess that we have gradually developed survival skills and those gained skills became our basic knowledge. Then, question arises, how we could survive in the first place? In other words, who did give us that basic survival knowledge? If there are aliens who are more advanced so that they can gave knowledge to us, then how could they originally get their knowledge? Who gave that knowledge to that alien? Oh... I am scary...
"That's how world works", or "it always have been like that", these kinds of answers do not answer this question. What do you think about this page? I will wait for your respond!
p.s. Do you want to know what my answer is? Think about a person who sacrificed his life and arose from the dead. I hope it would be enough... :)