What we know, what we don't know, pretending to understand, trust in honesty

from Diary 2023-08-31 what we know, what we don’t know, pretending to understand, trust in integrity.

• Sense of “getting it.”
• Sense of “I don’t know.”
  • subjective
  • experience

pretending to understand

• Act as if you know what you feel “I don’t know” feeling is a “shame” feeling.
  • Should be a loss in the long run, probably.
• Lying and deceiving others in an attempt to look good, and then being deceived yourself.
• Losing the opportunity to understand properly.
  • This is the loss
  • “Oh, I know.”
    • I know, but I don’t understand.
      • When you don’t understand it, all you can do is quote it.
    • Explanations of certain concepts are similar or the same.
      • It’s the same as [People who memorize the whole thing can’t dig in.
      • I can’t dig into it because I don’t understand it.

Should all knowledge be piling up from below?

• That’s not true.
  • Time is finite.
  • We have to dig until we know what it is and leave something unknowable.
• What to dig into and what to leave out is a personal decision.
  • What not to dig into

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