On 20 Mar 99, at 8:51, Richard Charles Holloway wrote:
> Perhaps knowledge is less perishable than the
> method with which we "manage" its' storage and retrieval?
Doc, this is an important point, but leads me to wonder whether / how it's
possible to separate "knowledge" from its "storage and retrieval." In what
sense does knowledge exist in a way distinct from knowers? It seems to me
that knowing (and thus, learning and sharing knowledge) is so intimately
enfolded in whatever means is used for storage and retrieval (whether in a
particular mind, on a written page, or in a series of electronic
impulses), that any lapse, interruption or flaw in the latter immediately
changes or extinguishes the former.
Am I missing something?
Malcolm
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