SpiralArchitect

What is the difference between remembering and knowing? Is there one?

Lets look at that question as if it were breathing... to remember, would be to inhale and exhale (metaphorically an idea or concept). To know would be to inhale, absorb and allow the oxygen to revitalize you to the point its literally flowing in your blood and energizing your soul (again, oxygen is a metaphor knowledge).


Excuse me if this made no sense to you, but I am extremely stoned and it makes perfect sense to me. It came about talking with a friend on becoming self-taught in scholastic subjects, and how you can sometimes learn more through self-application and determination, i.e. self-studymedical/law then taking qualifying exam, than being 'taught', i.e. taking required courses to receive a degree.

What do you guys think? I am not giving 'teachers' less worth, I am just pondering...

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SocataSmoker

Deep man... deep.

HydroChronic

a little to deep for me to understand...haha...i'm dumb..

iloveunot

in spanish there are two different verbs "to know" (saber and conocer) and a different word "to remember"....

saber has to do with knowing facts, while conocer means to know people etc.

heres a website on the differences:

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN "CONOCER, SABER AND PODER"

but in spanish putting either of those verbs in the past tense has implied meaning as well
if i wasnt so wasted i might go into it further , maybe i will later but i wanted to get this out there...

Merry-juana

Dude, I understand everything someone says when they are stoned, I do not have to smoke weed, I am permanently high (I have what people calls ADHD, but I call it being an Indigo Child, it is a more positive point of view.). I beleave cannabis takes you to a higher realm than you are at the moment, so cannabis takes me even higher that what people call high, and people have to smoke weed to get where I am naturally. It is weard, nobody understands what I say while they are sober, but once they get high, they understand everything.

PS: Damn I can get carried away once I start typing, please exuse me.

rwb214

I understand what you mean and it makes a pretty philosphical point that is limited by the english language.

Trocisp

To know something to have knowledge of it. You can have knowledge without experience. I, for instance, have the knowledge (I know) that hydrogen is fused in stars.

I, however, have no experience fusing hydrogen inside of stars. So I know something, not from experience.


Is that a sufficient answer to your question?

soldierx40k

to give an example, i could remember what 2+2 is... but i don't know why 2+2=4. If i know how to apply something, that is knowing. Blind regurgitation is remembering

tokaa

Well as for the difference between remembering and knowing..I believe Plato's doctrine of recollection can serve as an answer. Remember, its only a theory but yet again how can we ever know anything for certain about the nature of reality if the experience of it is subjective? Anyways, back to Plato. Plato states that we already have been exposed to
"the ideas" - perfect forms of everything we experience in reality which are simply the mold from which all real objects are cast. Since we have apprehended all of this knowledge of the structure of our reality previously, in some former existence, as Plato states, learning things and experiencing things in this world is simply a recollection of past exposure to the true forms of things. So in a sense, "knowing" is an act of remembering, the two are one in the same. Hope this provides some insight. Maybe it does, maybe im just baked..im not sure which.

runamukk

in my opinion to remember something you would have had to experience said action before. To know is to have the instinct or education without said experience having to have taken place.