Is Knowledge Vulnerable?

What we used to take for granted, namely that science can deliver clear cut and rational answers, is too constraining to be called knowledge.

Knowledge is about the perception, and perception – about how things appear to the one observing them. Things do not exist isolated from the observer, but the observer takes active part in shaping them. Thus, how can we know objectively, if we are part of the process creating that knowledge?

We cannot.

During the course of our history there have been many other ways of knowing – magic, mythology, arts (in the Greek sense of astronomy, mathematics, story telling, architecture), religion etc. Sometimes the limiting of the Western mind is done precisely through the methods and tools meant to free us: through the dissecting, structuring and rationalising. This blocks the flow of natural creativity. This creativity is channeled through what science thinks possible.

Knowledge can fall apart at any point of the extraction process. It is vulnerable.

Here is an analysis I wrote on the vulnerability of knowledge. Vulnerability of Knowledge

Enjoy!