I met a patient who is highly knowledgeable, with deep intersecting knowledge in many aspects, but he can't get behind the mere facts, he knows alot but he can't use his knowledge, he has no abstraction or insight on how to use this knowledge.
This patient is like a computer AI bot, who has a vast input of information but can't use it behind a language model system.
This made me introspect on how am I different than this patient, in a way I am similar to him, all humanity is as similar.
Knowledge without understanding is useless, a parrot can give a lecture on the black holes but it can't understand what does this mean in implication and abstractly, understanding beyond knowledge.
What does it mean? why is it like that? How can it be? Do I believe in it? What is my opinion about this matter?
In the movie Oppenheimer, Neil Bohr asks J. Robert. Oppenheimer:
"The important thing isn't can you read music, it's can you hear it. Can you hear the music, Robert?"
There's something more important than being able to do the calculations. One must have insight into what these calculations mean, intuit it, have inspiration.
Anyone being able to play the notes when they're able to read sheet music, anyone can do algebraic calculations, given enough study. But not everyone has the inspiration to come to new understandings.
There's something more important than being able to read and retain knowledge, we must seek insight beyond the knowledge and facts, anyone can retain information but not everyone has the intuition beyond the information, the inspiration to compile these into a new understanding. Meta-knowledge understanding. Understanding beyond the facts and the facts is what makes us human, is what makes us different than an AI.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly"
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