Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Philosophy Wire: Lost knowledge… Against knowledge…

Most of the knowledge that indigenous communities in South America have about plants is not written down. Now, ecologists at the University of Zurich have analyzed comprehensive information about the services provided by palm trees from multiple regions and made it accessible via a network approach. What they also discovered in the process was that the simultaneous loss of biodiversity and knowledge represents a key threat to the survival of indigenous peoples. [1] So much anxious are we that knowledge will be lost. But true knowledge never is. Everything is this world changes. And so does knowledge of the cosmos. Knowledge which cannot be passed over for outside its current context will mean nothing. Only the denial of knowledge remains. Beyond the aeons, the silence of not knowing penetrates the thin veil of existence. To show is that the only thing worth knowing is what cannot be known…

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