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Three kinds of knowledge

4episodes
176first heard, 2025
194most 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 194 at 02:55
“Explanatory knowledge generators, which is what human beings are, are better at generating knowledge than anything that has come before, whether it's reflective knowledge, which is life, DNA is the most classic example, or structural knowledge, which is planets and stars and everything based on the laws of physics that draws matter together.”

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