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17534122 No.17534122 [Reply] [Original]

Does knowledge even exist? If my brain and senses are able to process outside information and make a mental schema, does that mean one can discover everything in their own mind without having to ever leave their room? Does all knowledge lie in our heads, and it's just easier to discover it through our senses because it is more "concrete" outside?

>> No.17534144

>>17534122
What is he looking at?

>> No.17534201

>>17534122
Our mind is a program that constantly writes itself according to what's taken in by our senses.
Without sense stimulus, it would be unimaginably difficult to come up with more than a handful of things.

>> No.17534240

>>17534201
>it would be unimaginably difficult to come up with more than a handful of things.
just speculation on your part.

>> No.17534241

>>17534201
But do we need stimulus to come up with our ideas/thoughts, or is it already there?

>> No.17534279

>>17534122
>>17534241
The tools are certainly there, but the time isn't.
It's analogous to the monkeys with typewriters thought experiment.
Of course you could come up with every possible idea anybody else could come up with, but you'd be dead before you stumbled on anything meaningful if you start from scratch.

>> No.17534380

>>17534279
So is knowledge a priori?