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Progress Equals Change  

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Progress Equals Change "Does knowledge lead to progress in human thought?" One may come up with various perceptions of this relatively simple question. Consider my explanation as one of many solutions to a problem. For this solution, allow progress to be defined as "change," the movement from point A to point B. May knowledge be understood to be any information that is somehow acquired by one of the five senses that human beings possess. We will also define "human thought" to be many sequences of information processing. Thus, adding knowledge is the same as adding more information to the sequences of the human thought, hence changing these sequences. As we have classified progress to mean "change," we must come to the conclusion that knowledge indeed leads to some kind of progress in human thought. As history has demonstrated, humans rebel against change, such as with the case of the...

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