Holoscience

Important Knowledge vs. Unimportant Knowledge

In my last post I introduced the tension that exists between the accumulation of knowledge and our ability to access it, suggesting that more knowlege is not better because of our limited ability to interface with unlimited information. This issue is directly relevant to the overall mission of this blog, namely the articulation of some sort of ‘framework’ of reality. But how is one to make a start at this ambitious undertaking of ‘holoscience’, or ‘knowledge of the whole’? If knowledge is regarded as a collection of data, with each data-point as important as any other, then such an undertaking is evidently hopeless. There are, however, many other ways of regarding knowledge found at the base of various philosophies proposed over the centuries. Without, however, resorting to any of those, I would like to take up the conservative position according to which knowledge is indeed the accumulation of facts, and propose a simple way of handling the ever-increasing mass of data with which we are faced from year to year.

We may observe that it is not uniformly important or relevant. By being selective about what we attend to we are able to focus on aspects of

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