4How Will We Learn?

IN CHAPTER 4, WE LOOK AT THE LIMITS OF OUR KNOWLEDGE, realizing that sometimes people learn more when they are wrong, declaring the end of the isolated mind in learning and in all human action, and taking learning out of the institutions and into daily life. We are almost ready for mind enhancement.

THE LIMITS OF OUR KNOWLEDGE

We know many things, but there is a massive amount of things that we know nothing about. Sure, we have certainly always sensed this, but maybe we have never really explicitly considered it. It may feel somewhat uncomfortable to us.

In addition, the knowledge that we build our futures and base our decisions upon must be only a tiny part of what is knowable. Furthermore, we prefer order over disorder, ...

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