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Knowledge It can constitute a problem if the use of knowledge does not serve the building up of better systems that enable people to have a more meaningful life. Knowledge is the substantial resource humans are provided with as a species whose existence depends not merely on natural resources but on proper ways of informing our behaviour as well. The better information we obtain the more we become capable to make decisions in any sphere of our life, whether it be the choice of items we purchase from the market or the successive step towards the attainment of a trascendental goal. One thing is true, that we are what we are at the moment of that decision. We do not tend to compare the current decision we are making with any body else's decision, often not even with our own previous decisions made on similar circumstances. A prominent master once said that we cannot behave differently from the way our spiritual status allows us at that particular moment. That is a mystical claim pe...
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Communication The Information Gap: Let us Think. According to the theory of communication, people communicate on the behalf of a lack of information on one side of the participants. You can also say that there is a difference of content between the parts. Actually, communication makes that gap visible so that the participants are aware of what somebody knows and how it is related to the content of information the other participant lacks. However, another important aspect in this concern is that whenever the event of communincation takes place, the awareness of two things occurs. Firstly, that the part that is provided with the piece of information becomes conscious of having it. Secondly, that the part not possessing that piece of information becomes conscious of not having it.  Are those conditions enough for communication to happen? Well, not really. Otherwise, human communication might be comparable to a simple Physics experiment where, in a system, energy gets trans...