I have always found claims of knowledge to be a little weird. I mean, sure, it's great that I know a lot about the history of marmalade, and the Aztec civilisation, and the fall of the gold standard. But I'm not sure what knowing these things means. Do I have some sort of an internal implicit model that these new pieces of information glom on to? Or do I have a simplified version of the events that, one stripped from all the 'non-essential' bits, creates an internal story representation, which I can then use and reuse like a knowledge baller? Or is it all immaterial, and all the pieces of information has done has been to create and strengthen my internal model of the world, so that the next time an unknown comes up the neural net that's my brain pops out a better answer? Is it all of the above together and a whole lot of other things? What does knowing something even mean?
Well, you know, there's a large cognitive science literature dating back to the 1970s and 1980s that models knowledge as an interrelated network of ideas. I've even contributed to that literature.
Well, you know, there's a large cognitive science literature dating back to the 1970s and 1980s that models knowledge as an interrelated network of ideas. I've even contributed to that literature.