This is your daily reminder that you know nothing at all

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This is your daily reminder that you know nothing at all Anonymous Mon Sep 4 16:14:16 2023 No.15719161 [Reply] [Original]

Hypothetical Percentage of all Scientific Knowledge that has been discovered across all domains:
---Causative Knowledge: 40%
---Correlative Knowledge: 60%
But, even the causative knowledge may not always be reproducible, so it may in fact just be correlation. And as we know, correlation does not necessarily, or not always, mean causation.
A good example is our planet.

Hypothetical Percentage of all Knowledge About Our Planet Discovered: (That we know about)
Knowledge About Earth's Surface Features (e.g., geography, geology): 70%
Knowledge About Flora and Fauna (including known species and ecosystems): 40%
Knowledge About Ocean (factoring in undiscovered areas and physical phenomena): 20%
Knowledge About Causative Information (definite causative understanding across all domains): 30-40%

So, what do you know? Why don't we know anything? Why is it so that we don't even know what we think we know? How much more is there to know, if we can't even quantify the percentage of knowledge that there is to be known? It was discussed the other day here that a lot of science that is "causative" may not actually be so, As previously mentioned, a significant portion of scientific knowledge is based on causative relationships, especially in foundational scientific disciplines like physics, chemistry, and biology. But as stated, an unknown proportion may not be reproducible. As in, we don't know shit. Instances of falsified or unreliable scientific results can further complicate the assessment. Falsified results can introduce both erroneous causative and correlative claims into the scientific literature, making it challenging (read; impossible) to distinguish between them.
So, how do you feel about knowing that what you know isn't known, and that if the proportion of knowledge that isn't actually known can't easily be quantified, isn't it safe to say that all we can know...
is that we know nothing at all?
Or is that just correlation?

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