Knowledge

"The growth of knowledge depends entirely on the existence of disagreement."
-Karl Popper

I disagree.

Leaves me with a paradox doesn't it? Then again, it's a typhical Popper thing to say. The founder of the falsification method, constructed that sentence in a way that it's falsification will justify it. But that's just lowly human logic. I'm not gonna get stuck in those games.

Most of our inventions were made by accident. So what was there to disagree with in the first place? Nothing. When man discovered fire, did it happen because he disagreed with the opinion that we can't make fire? He probably didn't even know what it was, but was just amazed at what suddenly happened.

How were te Vedas written in old India? Because of initial disagreement, with what? It's more likely the other way around; the knowledge came first, disagreement came later. Now we disagree with everything! The only thing worth disagreeing about are opinions. This information is created and maintained on the level of the mind. I would say any information coming from higher up should be accepted in favor of that what comes from lower levels of consciousness.

We can disagree with everything, but there's little use in trying to understand the things that surpass our understanding. In the end there's nothing to understand; it's all about knowing, and not knowing. In a place with no causality there's nothing to understand about anything, just observation.

So what I think about Popper's quote is that it's a typhical human thing to say.