"We can understand anything only in terms of something else". I came across this line while reading a book and I was completely taken aback by its implication. It could either mean that all our knowledge is like a collection of information where each concept is related to one another through an intricate web of connections or it could mean that it is a tree like structure where each higher level concept is connecting to a lower level concept and that in turn connected to even lower level concept and so on. If that is the case, then there should be something at the root of all this that is very fundamental. What is that fundamental thing on which all our knowledge and understanding hinges upon? Could it be the being itself? That may be the reason we will never be able to make a computer truly understand something. With today's technology, we can literally put all human knowledge into a computer and we can even connect all the concepts to one another but we may never b...
