Answer by Apostolos for Is knowledge non-physical?
The term "knowledge" is used with a lot of different meanings. Here are the first two and main (according to me) definitions from Dictionary.com1. Acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as...
View ArticleAnswer by Vladimir Andral Jr. for Is knowledge non-physical?
The knowledge argument is the formal way of wording your question that philosophers try to answer. TedEd has a really good video that can help you think about the answer to your question:Is knowledge...
View ArticleAnswer by Laurentius Oktavian Zamoyski for Is knowledge non-physical?
Good question, and one involving the problem of the universals. Ultimately, knowledge, if such a thing can exist at all, must involve intentionality, that is it must be about something. That means that...
View ArticleAnswer by Damien for Is knowledge non-physical?
The selected answer seems like the best one, to me. I just want to note that there are more options than non-physical vs physical-state-of-the-brain.In fact, it is completely uncontroversial that there...
View ArticleAnswer by Agent Smith for Is knowledge non-physical?
Sticking my neck out ...Before experiments demonstrated quantum entanglement to be real (instantaneous"communication" of entangled states that, sadly, can't be exploited), it was easy to test if...
View ArticleAnswer by SonOfThought for Is knowledge non-physical?
I believe that knowledge in its absolute sense is not countable. That unique knowledge, then, is nothing but beingness or existence. Again, it is nothing but consciousness. In other words, absolute...
View ArticleAnswer by Rad80 for Is knowledge non-physical?
What is knowledge is subjective on the entity that is able to know it. Potentially, everything is knowledge for something.Knowledge doesn't exist in itself; it's an emergent concept, a shortcut of...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is knowledge non-physical?
I think this is unfortunately one of those questions where there's no canonical answer, and so the answer you get from each person really only tells you about their beliefs and not much more.The...
View ArticleAnswer by Pertti Ruismäki for Is knowledge non-physical?
Knowledge is information that is analyzed, interpreted, understood, assigned meanings and linked with other pieces of knowledge within the mind.Knowledge can exist only within the mind. If you write...
View ArticleAnswer by Dcleve for Is knowledge non-physical?
By definition, knowledge cannot be "physical". Go through a simple logic exercise. One could, in principle, learn something that supports the truth of physicalism. In this case, knowledge COULD be...
View ArticleAnswer by TheMatrix Equation-balance for Is knowledge non-physical?
"What Is Knowledge" - I have to say, this question gave me a pose. After a while, I realized that I didn't have an answer. From the human point of view, we are missing a lot of answers. What is the...
View ArticleAnswer by Rabail Anjum for Is knowledge non-physical?
Yes, it is non-physical. But the question is: are intellectual people non-physical? Of course not!Why is it important?Many people are just not interested in knowledge, so those who seek it make it...
View ArticleAnswer by Alistair Riddoch for Is knowledge non-physical?
Yes. Non-physical. Abstract.Knowledge is understanding, concepts, skills, experiences.We can store and transfer knowledge using physical medium to capture the concepts. But the knowledge itself is...
View ArticleAnswer by J D for Is knowledge non-physical?
Knowledge is typically taken to be non-physical. For instance, to ride a bicycle, you use what epistemologists might call knowledge-how (SEP). If you tie your shoes, for instance, you can't go to the...
View ArticleAnswer by Jo Wehler for Is knowledge non-physical?
Knowledge is information about facts. It is stored in the memory of our brain and can be retrieved by suitable mental processes.Apparently, information is non-physical.
View ArticleAnswer by mattdm for Is knowledge non-physical?
"Knowledge" is an abstract concept. It is a convenient label, generally considered to apply to true beliefs (with considerable wiggle around what exactly that means, and how one might know about...
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What is the fundamental nature/ontology of knowledge? Is knowledge a physical state? Is knowledge a specific arrangement of physical particles in a brain, a book, a solid-state drive, a GPU, etc.? Or...
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