Let’s play an infinite game: Learning
Learning with action traduces in KNOWLEDGE and that can only be obtained if we question things, because if we question ourselves about something we don’t know we will look for an answer, so we’re learning, after that we apply the learned things and as result we acquire knowledge
The important thing is not to stop questioning
Albert Einstein
About learning there’s somethig that few people will tell you: learning is an infinite game: there’s two kinds of game finites and infinites. The first one has as goal to declare a winner and a loser, everybody play that game: actually I love playing chess and that game is a good example of what I’m talking about.
The second one, inifinite games, has as goal to survive, mmmm… I don´t like that word, so let’s say that the goal is to keep playing as long as we can: climbing, martial arts, thinking (yes, thinking), reading, LEARNING, developing, living are good examples, it’s obvious that some people do this thinking in a competition environment (“I can learn faster than you!, I can fight better than you!!! :-S “), that’s stupid, everyone does these things because it’s a way to test ourselves, to see how far we can go and after that try a little more. So if learning it’s a competition game, it’s a game where each one is the only player in his own field.
But humans as some species are socials, so everything we have as knowledge can serve others as well and symbiotic is the keyword here because we can improve the knowledge of any tribe we belong (our family, our work, our friends, everyone) as everyone can improve our knowledge.
I got a question from a friend at work: “who’s winning… you or the universe?” and that’s a tricky question if we don’t see the whole:
- Plato said that the ideas (the abstract concept of everything) are inmutables, so they contain all the knowledge, but that knowledge is just “there” unless some conscious being has the ability to do something with that
- Everyone as everything is part of the universe
- Learning is an infinite game, so there’s no winner nor loser
- The goal is to improve our knowledge
- If we improve our knowledge, we improve our environment knowledge
So I don’t feel able to answer that question with a winner/loser answer, I just can say that this game it’s more a symbiotic relationship between the universe and their components, so everyone is winning. What do you think?