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Does it matter if our acquisition of knowledge occurred in 'bubbles' where some information and voices are excluded?
My Areas of Knowledge
History
Natural Sciences
Key knowledge Questions to Ask
What do we liken knowledge to?
Information?
Facts?
siutations?
Repetition of prior experiments?
What are bubbles to us?
When we say infooramtion and voices are excluded, to what extent does that influence your consumption of knowledge?
Say, lack of information may lead to formation of biased, misled or underinformed knowledge.
what exactly does exclusions mean to us
Is information excluded as a consequence of nature or of human choice?
Yes it does matter
No it does not matter
Bubbles greatly limit exposure of information and possible influences or points of view that could've been instrumental in constructing a new paradigm of knowledge.
COunter - What good does it do to try and get infuences from everywhere?
That is, information or points of view beyond your own discipline are unneccessary to your acquisiition of knowledge in the case that your are working towards something. For exampple, when learning to set up a business, there is no relevance between learning sooil types or climatic conditions when setting up a business.
Expanation - Depends if the bubble is naturall formed, duue to a high/deep level of understanding required to understand the field.
Although Knowledge is universal, knowledge of humanity is naturally respective to the respective umbrella community of knowers.
Real world examples from
NS: existence of bubbles in developmet of physics theoreis
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What are the types of bubbles
Filter
Epistemic
Echo Chamber
Filter bubbles: where you don’t hear the other side.
Echo Chambers: where you don’t trust the other side.
Bubbles aren't an issue here because this will allow streams of thought to develop, but it becomes an issue when the bubble hinders your human capability. The bubble could affect the knowledge you take, but when it starts changing the dynamic of the society, it is difficult to ascertain whether or not the bubble is good. A change in the constituents of society, i.e., the people, will cause a dramatic shift in society itself.
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When should we listen to others, when is it important to listen to oothers
When is it not important to listen to others
Theoretical development into practical usage
When are you most likely to be misled?
Bubbles sometimes are required for the formation of knowledge that is pure. I refer to knowledge as pure as i liken puirty to unbiased and un - affected by other human inputs.
Howeever, this is slightly contradictory to the nature of knowledge, being that is a continuous accumulation of information alongside its interpretations
In addition, bubbles allow for the quantification of knowledge through boundaries of understanding. Simply put, we are able to comprehend the infinite nature of knowledge because bubbles exist. Because knowledge is compartmentalized and grown in its bubbles, it becomes easy to cultivate and to disperse. People are then able to take knowledge from the bubbles they choose
An argument can also be made the communication decreases efficiency, especially when we are talking about something like research and developemnt. THe idea of non discolsures exist because the knowledge of the research, 1. is pertinent to onl the company or the organisation that deals with that research. 2. It restrains external influence from affecing the progress of the research.
However, this makes the assumption that bubbles are easy to access and also easy to exit. In order for people to maximize learning efficiency, they will be required to hop from bubble to bubble of their own choice. Is the bubbles are either secretive, restrictive or rivalrous or excludable
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I also beleive that in the process of communicating the contents of the bubble of knowledge that has been built this far, there is margin for error where information or knowledge is misinternpreted or half intrepreted in the process of transportantion.
Is this about usefulness or ethics?
Probably Ethics, but do both as evaluation?
does it refer to the exclusion of knowledge post entering the bubble
or
the exclusion of knowledge pre entering the bubble
Structure of my essay
Introdcution
Esatblish that bubbles will form regardless of choice
Explain how the only difference is whetehr they hinder or suport the acquisiitonof knowledge
To explore if they hinder or not, the essay will look a the formation of knowledge in the essay and also wwhat the nature of that knowledge is