Shining Thru

The knowledge of people that make up society is always interesting to me…depending on who you are talking to you can learn a plethora of things.  It can sometimes be a big surprise what some people know…sometimes I even surprise myself at the connections I can make with what someone is saying.  It’s almost like playing a game of units of separation…how does my knowledge compare to their knowledge?  How can I make what they are saying make sense in my own head, or even if it is understood, what connection can I make so that I can remember this information and store it for further conversations?

Sometimes it’s surprising how one topic can begin a conversation that ends in a completely different place.  Sometimes I try to retrace the conversation to see how we ended on a certain topic, but most of the time I can’t remember all of the steps that we took…occasionally I can puzzle it out.

Using the knowledge of others is a good thing…I think that it is good to learn from what other people already know.  I personally learn well from having conversations about things and will learn more that way than any amount of reading about something.  I wonder what it would be like if we could access the information of all others around us…

Is there such a thing as a common knowledge base…I remember something vaguely from psychology class in college.  I do wonder how certain knowledge spreads like wildfire across our society and sometimes from one culture into another while other information is buried deep within a culture or stays in the books….What does it take to make knowledge spread?