Knowledge And Personal Knowledge: The Importance Of Knowledge

It is necessary because of through our memories we carry with us the knowledge we are gaining – the skills, our past experiences, and the shared knowledge we have developed informally and formally through our lives, to allow us to decide on what actions we take, and a direction on how we understand our world. Retainment allows us to build on the previous memories to generate a reasonably robust autobiographical narrative that weaves together events in our lives, respectable amount of factual knowledge about the things around us enable us to apply the theories we have formulated so far from our experiences to gain new knowledge. Memory gives us access to facts, normal access to background information that would allow us to ensconce newly acquired

In the 1940s curare used as general anaesthetic, discovered that the drug did not even block or diminish the experience of pain, but blocked their ability to express pain, children remembering pain. in this case, we know that surgery will be associated with pain, and it will allow us to generate an association of surgery, with for example, pain. Emotional memory allows us to categorize everything around us, to make one’s life worth living. we rely on our memories to weave our lives into a coherent whole, our personal likes, subjective feel of what it was like to have had the experience, goes on to make our personal knowledge. Anyone with internet access can call up an image of the view from Uhuru Peak, but currently no such image can realistically capture the feel of what an actual experience of that view is like.13 A photograph that one took at the time from the same perspective from which one actually experienced the view in person might do better at capturing this more personal form of information, but more by stimulating personal memory than by replacing

Our quick intuitive access to events access to events of the past gives the recall a sense of immediacy of reliability, but consciously we are filtering our memory as we look back Interpret our past in a way that is consistent with how we are now, so that it fits into what we already understand, we edit out of our memories, limiting our acquisition of new knowledge. We seem to have been purposely constructed with a mechanism for erasing the tape of our memory or bending it, so that we can live and function without being haunted by the painful, or insignificant bits. This however hinders our gaining of new knowledge about everything around us, since the way we gain memory is very much subjective and limited to our preexisting