I'd rather know half and half. If I know all and do nothing, no one benefits, including me, but I'm relaxed. If I know nothing and do all, someone might die. And I'd be tired.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes, but if you know all, then you'd know how to make everyone benefit from your knowledge.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But I wouldn't do it. I'd also know how to eradicate all evil, but I wouldn't do it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not saying *you* in particular would, I'm saying that any person of worth, anyone with any a sense of dignity left in their body, would.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But I have to do nothing. I can't tell anyone.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, I mean the whole situation is paradoxical, because just by being there you're doing something.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think it means I can't do anything with the knowledge. But I can go and play video games or something.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But playing video games requires a lot of knowledge, so that would be using it, so would eating and drinking, at least if you're not suckling on yer mom's teat.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think the parameters set for this question involve only extraordinary knowledge, not the kind that everyone is probably going to get, or will find it really easy to get.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No no no, but that's where it gets tricky... what is extraordinary? So the one with all the knowledge in the world can't use the knowledge he has beyond the smartest person in the world? Besides knowing everything means, being good at science, math, languages, and any other subject in school. So it wouldn't be extra ordinary for someone to be good at one of the areas, but it would be extra ordinary for someone to be good at all of the areas. Do you know what I mean?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah... I think there's no general rule and we ahve to do it on a case by case basis. Like knowing how to breathe and the sequence of the alphabet would not be extraordinary, but the inner workings of the universe would be. The inner workings of a rocket are fairly simple, but those of microchips aren't. I guess you just can know everything, but no more than what your IQ would have been able to learn at your age. So instead of learning stuff, you learn how to translate your latent knowledge into words or actions.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This reminds me of Colin Singleton's epiphany/Eureka moment from An Abundance of Katherines (by John Green).

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i don't do anything anyway, why not know everything? but, then again, i also think that being in a coma sounds like a fine idea.

by Anonymous 12 years ago