Knowledge is something that is constantly surrounding us. It is essential for deciding basically everything in our lives: what clothes to wear, where to live, which places are safe and which are not, and so on. However, many of us use our own knowledge so often that we realize what a gift it actually is, and honestly we take it for granted the majority of the time.
There are two main reasons of why we want to understand things: the first being is that as a species and through evolution we have developed very intuitive brains. There are always going to be people who want to study things and events to figure out exactly every detail about them. The second is that we are afraid of the unknown, and it can be quite intimidating. To go into a thing with literally know information about its inner workings or any thoughts of what to do once there is a very daunting challenge, but we still do it. Scientists are constantly throwing themselves into these situations so that they can study them and bring all of their quirks into the light.
We are constantly living in an important time since right now, in this given moment, is the time that humanity has known as much as its ever known in its entire history. Literally every moment that passes, somewhere around the world we learn something new, and thanks to technology this information can reach the opposite side of the globe within seconds. Probably the biggest contributor to knowledge would be in the area of science. Science is constantly studying the reality that we are in and trying to understand it. However, as much of an advocate of science that I am, there is one crucial thought behind this march for knowledge that bothers me: that we will be able to understand literally everything. That is the whole goal of science, to find out all the details about something and to continue doing that until there is nothing more to be studied, and members in the scientific community believe that one day we will have all the answers. When you think about that idea it is a pretty logical argument, especially at the exponential growth of technology. However, especially from a philosophical point of view, that will never be achieved, and honestly that mindset is quite naïve. There is an infinite amount of unknowable knowledge present in our reality that we will never be able to fully grasp. And even if we think that we have understood literally everything in our reality, there is definitely a big group of unknown variables present that we just do not realize are actually there.
As naïve as this thought process is, it is necessary to keep the driving force of science constantly going. We need to take that mindset with a grain of salt, and use it to boost our motivation, and realize that the goal it is trying to achieve is literally impossible. Also, we should take after the mindset of scientists and put ourselves into the unknown. As intimidating as it may seem, it is the only way that we are able to grow and realize more things that we did not understand before, and that can fuel our motivation to know as much as we possibly can.
