Sources+of+Knowledge

Here are some more questions that might help clarify your understanding of this essential questions. Use the comment box to post your ideas and build on the thoughts of your classmates.
How is knowledge gained?

What are the sources?

To what extent might these vary according to age, education or cultural background?

Does knowledge come from inside or outside? Do we construct reality or do we recognize it?

In what sense, if any, can a machine be said to know something? How can anyone believe that a machine can think?

When a machine gives an instruction to press a certain button to make it work, where is that knowledge or awareness located? Does technology allow some knowledge to reside outside the human knower? Is knowledge even a “thing” that resides somewhere?