Interconnectedness of Individual Knowers
摘要
We do not know alone, but are usually part of a knowing system, whether we are aware of it or not. If we are unaware of how we are connected in our web of knowers, we may be confused by their influence on our knowing. For example, parents, friends, cultures, and binary ideas about genders are part of that web. We may miss what “knowing” really means since our belief in the binary limits us. The influence of cultures on knowers and even the influence of knowers on each other is part of this discussion. Interconnectedness even includes the mutually connected knowing of other species and of biological entities, some very unlike human knowers, both within their species and individuals and between them and us!. The experience of the knower and the known object includes all of these interconnections.