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Three kinds of knowledge

5episodes
176first heard, 2025
196most recent, 2026
First said · Ep 176 at 02:38
“If I was late and you were before me, you had some sort of information that turned into knowledge, that is then acted upon through wisdom, and I don't have that.”
Said now · Ep 196 at 26:36
“From the dawn of the universe until now, the vast majority of constraint and building and order generation has not been explanatory knowledge. It's been structural knowledge: the forming of stars, the interaction of matter, the physical laws. All of that then led the opportunity for replicative knowledge to be generated, through evolution, where every single iteration along an evolutionary path has to be strong enough to survive.”

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  5. 196

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