Do You Encourage (or Discourage) Inquiry and Conversation?

There is only one healthy answer to this question

Thinking and discussing was a hallmark of the ancient Greeks — image via MidJourney

Do you know everything?

If you answer yes to that question, I don’t really have anything more to say to you other than you should probably seek professional psychiatric help.

Assuming you have a basic grasp on reality and a modicum of self-awareness…

Let’s agree that no human being walking the earth today possesses all knowledge.

Let’s go even further. No group of human beings today possess all knowledge.

There is no all-knowing government, political party, laboratory, educational institution, social justice movement, nation-state, religious group, or any such entity today in our world.

We can debate whether artificial intelligence will reach a point of complete knowledge, but even then…

Will AI have emotional intelligence? Will it have wisdom?

Those are important forms of knowledge. Vital, in fact.

Bottom line: No human being or computer today has all knowledge.

This means…

We all need to pursue knowledge.