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Sunday, June 5th 2005

8:03 AM

Knowledge - Michael Thomas

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - G. K. Chesterton in Everlasting Man, 1925

 

There is much work linking Darwin to social theory.  This is the contribution of the atheists to the state religion which is called science.  In this way science starts to mean the triumph of pet conclusions about the world, and has less than the pursuit of knowledge.  To understand this fundamental perversion we have to work pretty hard to develop a new understanding of the way knowledge functions in a society.  From the conferences last week I have come to a new understanding of knowledge in society (much of this work as been done by F. A. Hayek).  He talks about how knowledge works.  It seems he understands knowledge as compared to labor.  Hence there is a division of knowledge; there is also a division of labor.  To what extent that we can construct more complex theories of knowledge exchange vs. the study of labor economics which has gone a long way to maturity, begs focus of some very bright minds (here I am glad there are those more endowed than I). 

I first have to figure out what knowledge is.  There are things that we know and things that we think we know.  Certainly there are suppositions that we make which prove to be true regardless of why we believe them.  My favorite irrational explanation is that when you shut the door of the refrigerator a little gnome must turn out the light, since it appears to go off.  Clearly this statement is false, but it transmits the understanding that the light goes off when you shut the door.  This is understood, yet a bad explanation.  Only when we start trying to systematically reconcile this interpretation with schematics of electricity do we have to abandon our childish notion of magic. 

In this way science is very helpful.  There are certain rules of the universe for which we have improved our approximation of understanding.  Newton, more than anyone else, set up a system to link all the various disciplines of science into an organic mass.  Newton may have been one of the first people to see various sciences related in this way.  Therefore we see subfields to understanding where people specialize.  I work to understand my portion of the world, my employment.  I get good at my world view.  Another gains by investing his talents in another pursuit.  I can trade this knowledge with this other at points where benefit is to be gained in trade.  My favorite example of this is the Cobb-Douglass function.  This function is taken for granted in most advanced economics courses.  An economist who had some insights about the world (Cobb) sought out a mathematician (Douglas) to contribute some functional knowledge about math which made his theory quite robust.  This is the trade.  The underlying specialization is the novelty.

So if people specialize in knowledge, there seem to be gains.  This is the same story that the economist will tell you about labor.  In this way we can see a more egalitarian aspect to the use of knowledge in society (to use the Levy-Peart insight).   Like with labor some is deemed dearer by the market, knowledge too can be rewarded. The market exchange is transacted through medium of exchange; there should be something like this with knowledge. 

This knowledge is what separates us from animals.  We can choose to benefit from it, or we can allow it to continue on a random course.  The quote I choose above speaks to the ability for man to counter the prevailing force.  If we recognize this ability as what makes man distinct, than we have a theory of reason.  If we are all similarly not animals, than it follows in some way that we are all equal.  To put it another way, this reason creates membership in the society known as humanity, and we all have certain rights within this context.  It is incredibly interesting to recognize this natural law doctrine in even the most secular of sources.  It is in this way that I feel Darwin’s rejection of Birth Control can be viewed.  He recognizes that eugenics is fundamentally perverse.  That human reason applied to the survival of a species is not evolution.  The above seems to suggest the beauty of reason and its caveats.  In this way, however naive the argument, it has worked toward a more complete understanding of the work on knowledge’s advantages and limits. 

8 Comment(s).

Posted by Michael Thomas:

"We must therefore bear the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak
surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least
one check in steady action, namely that the weaker and inferior
members of society do not marry so freely as the sound; and this check
might be indefinitely increased by the weak in body or mind refraining
from marriage, though this is more to be hoped for than expected."

Darwin, Descent of Man CH 5
Sunday, June 5th 2005 @ 3:44 PM

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To bad Darwin got married.;)
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