/sci/ - Science & Math

I would say never, Just because there is always more to learn.
Just look about languages and how you never will learn everything about them

>>15026256
When I can learn more about the same subject without struggling to understand it.

>>15026256
I would say that you learned something when you wish you DIDN'T understand something but you still do. For example, when some bitch on the train is complaining to her friend about Republicans then I wish I DIDN'T have to hear her yammering but unfortunately because I understand English I do. But if she was saying the same thing in ebonics then I wouldn't mind because it's impossible to understand a damn word.

Look up Poincare and his work on insights. There are also a lot of studies on the importance of emotion or feeling to understanding that will be worth reading if you are interested in this. Intuitively of course it makes sense that you will only learn something when you engage with it deeply, and that requires some feeling for the material that draws you into it and beyond the surface.

When I know something it changes something in me. If you examine the root of understanding, for instance, you will see that it can be taken quite literally--you stand beneath it; the knowledge consumes you. There are also some Greek roots that point to it meaning something like feeling it in your guts, your innards.

I would also say that knowing something means that you go beyond conceptualisations. You have an intuitive sense of the thing. If one were so inclined, one might say that knowing something is simply clearing away the debris of human thoughts and piercing down to the pure awareness of the universe, otherwise known as God, where all things simply 'are'.

>>15026256
>When would you say you have "learned" a subject anon?

When Im better at it than anyone else, or at least stand above 1% to 0.1%

Its a simple and real metric that tells you youre an "expert"

Regardless Ive met people who sit at the 1% and are completly clueless in comparison to a real expert, this said theyre still better than 99% which is enough to award them the tittle of:

>Person who has learned a subject