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Question from my old Chemistry Teacher

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Okay, this might sound a bit dumb, but it's been bugging me for a while, so I figured I'd post it here. Anyway, here goes:

>What is "knowledge"?

Now, to explain this. Let's pick something you probably don't know. Like say... Doctor Doom once got thrown into the past and fought Megalodons while honing his skills, which led him to living for millions of years. Alright, this is pretty useless info, but still. Now that you've "absorbed" that info, how can you "define" it? Are you a bit heavier now? Does "knowledge" somehow "become mass"? Or is it something "invisible" that just gets "stored" in the "empty spaces" of the brain? Does that mean that the brain has a "storage limit" ?

Basically what he's asking is what's the difference before you gained new knowledge, and after. How do you measure it. What is it?
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Neural connections rewiring in the brain.
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>>9124542
There is an entire area of philosophy devoted to this. It's called epistemology.

Another interesting question is: what is the criteria for having knowledge? I believe it was the Greeks that first proposed that one knows something iff it's a true belief. But if you believe something for the wrong reasons, then is it really knowledge? This led to adding justification as a requirement for knowledge. So now we have knowledge iff justified true belief. But then gettier came around with some counterexamples to that equivalence so now we're trying to add more conditions to make things work.

In terms of the physical change in the brain, it changes after the development of a belief and this would be identical for true and false beliefs (given that knowledge is a subset of true beliefs). So asking what knowledge would be physically is actually a pointless question because it looks the same as incorrect information in the brain.

I can save you the effort of studying epistemology by summarizing it this way: you can't know if you know, I can't know that either, I think.
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>>9124542
Read on some Popper, the guy who formed the falsification principle.
Just search epistemology in general, any good scientist should be acquainted with it.
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>>9124542
increase in synaptic density. duh.
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