The Importance Of Knowledge In Gaining Knowledge

“In gaining knowledge, each area of knowledge uses a network of ways of knowing. ”
We live in a world where massive amount of information is presented in the forms of books, websites, and communications. Reception of knowledge is one of the ways information transfers, but some parts of information may be misunderstood and misinterpreted by people themselves, probably causing inaccurate reception and cognition. The reason why knowledge may be misinterpreted is that people’s thoughts or feelings may affect how objectively they judge and receive the knowledge.
For the purpose of this essay, some key words should be defined in order to fit the context of this prompt. ‘Gaining knowledge’ will be interpreted as ‘ways people get and process information’.

There is one patient of him called “Elliot,” who lost part of his brain while having craniotomy, an operation aiming to remove a tumor in his brain. As a result, Elliot ended up losing all emotions or feelings, but surprisingly, he still got a very high IQ, which seemingly revealed the independent relationship between his reason and emotion. However, as far as I’m concerned, Antonio’s study may only show the physical separation of reason and emotion, which does not necessarily mean that they can be independent of each other when functioning together as a group. Elliot’s inability of making decisions and thinking properly was due to the loss of a certain brain tissue essential for his emotion’s function. If Elliot had not lost that tissue in his brain, he would not have been unable to interact with the world

For example, China has been suffering from air pollution since 1990, but it was not until recently that people living in China realized the main contaminants of air pollution are inhalable particles. Back in 2000, people in China perceived that in almost every morning, there were ‘dense fog’ and assumed that it was nothing but natural phenomenon; people’s misunderstanding of the inhalable particles was forged by direct observation of the environment around them. In this case, sensation and perception, people’s observation of the nature, distort the scientific truth and hinder their knowledge of the