In my business, the performing arts, knowledge is often confused with
understanding. Information is external while both knowledge and
understanding are active to the systems of the person. The way we define
it is
Information: external to the actor
Understanding: comprehension of the systems of the Information.
Knowledge: an instantaneous, some would say "almost intuitive"
skill response to information received. The word used is
virtuosity.
Performance: the ability to clearly pass on the Information
through the execution of the knowledge in a creative
fashion.
Ray Evans Harrell, artistic director
The Magic Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble of New York, Inc.
mcore@idt.net / http://www.freeyellow.com/members/mccony/
Mark Feenstra wrote:
> My own understanding is that while I can acquire knowledge by
> experimentally testing theories, I theorise that I can only pass it on to
> others as information. Further, that for others to transform what is
> presented by me as knowledge and received by them as information to become
> their own knowledge they would need to understand and test by experiment
> themselves the same theories on which my knowledge is based. I don't know
> if that is what Eugene was pointing to, but I hope it is ;-). I guess the
> key distinction I am making is that while deposits into knowledge banks
> may be knowledge, that withdrawls are inevitably information. While this
> may not be a commonly accepted distinction, what do you make of it?
--"Ray E. Harrell" <mcore@idt.net>
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