No One Knows What the F*** They're Doing (or "The 3 Types of Knowledge")
Sometimes, in conversations with others, I hear them say with complete confidence stuff that I know is total crap.  It's like I just can't get over how absolutely wrong they are and yet how absolutely right they <i>believe</i> they are.<p>So I start wondering how many times <i>I</i> do exactly the same thing.  I mean, how can I know what I don't know?  How much is there?  How do I even know if something I <i>really</i> believe is true or not?<p>It's hard to think that everything I believe about the world might be completely untrue.  In illusion.  An ... imagination.<p>Sometimes I am faced with a situation where if I convince the other person of what I believe, then I also believe that person will be better off.  For example, if a car is coming and a child is entering a road, Instinctively, we think to call out to the child or try to stop the child or yell at the car to stop the car, but what if the underlying belief: That the child is better off <i>not</i> being hit.  Is false?<p>What if the child may be <i>better</i> off for being hit.  Perhaps it makes the child stronger later in life or through her recovery, she meets the man of her dreams and they live happily ever after?<p>We don't know. I don't know.  How can I know what to do?