Knowledge Relationships

One of the most common ideas around being human is relationship and connection. We are social creatures – we want to have connections with others.

Taking that one step further and we talk about everything being connected – people, planets, energy, nature, animals, and so on. Physics will say it’s all energy and it all interacts with each other. I for one have no doubt of this idea.

What if we brought that analogy to information and knowledge. After all, in its rawest form, information and knowledge are just pure energy as well.

Now information as an idea is far beyond anything we might think of – it’s everywhere. There’s information in every atom, its layout of atomic and subatomic particles. There’s information is every cell in our body about how it’s composed and how it functions. At this level the amount of information is staggering.

Knowledge I’ll condense as taking particular kinds of bits of information and making some sense out of them. Something we learn – from experience, from experiments, from life, from each other, from life. When we do this we are establishing relationships and connections among information! That happens all the time. Eventually we group this stuff into categories and fields of study as we establish deeper and closer relationship and connections.

What I find so cool is when we can connect and relate what we believe are entirely different categories of knowledge. When Neurology meets biology, or biology meets psychology, or understanding virus spread whether it’s human or computer. I love finding new ways to relate data – kind of in the same way that I love it when two friends meet and connect!

Taking it further, every person also has a relationship with wisdom and knowledge as well. It’s similar to having a relationship with a person, but instead of a physical form, it’s an energetic form. Our relationship with wisdom and knowledge constantly changes, it informs us and we inform it.

What if we treated our relationship with wisdom and knowledge like we treated our relationships with other people? I wonder what would happen?