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Design Constructs of a Knowledge Machine

In this chapter, the hierarchy of social progress, based on wisdom, knowledge, and information is evolved. Like Freudian superego based on ego and id, wisdom is based on knowledge and information. The chain retracts to information being based on data structures and binary bits. The computational era has (almost) perfected the digital processing of bits and data structures but abandoned the society at the doorway of processing knowledge and wisdom leading into human compassion and ethics. Historically, the role of philosophers, saints, and sages has paved the path of mature societies and conversely, the role of plunderers, conceited, and the selfish has robbed fully fledged societies of their wisdom, ...

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