![]() The only thing where I maybe see this as relevant is in storytelling. I can get lost in music even if I know a voice is digitally improved. I can admire the dome of a chapel even if I know the mathematics why it supports itself. See and that's the thing I don't get (sorry, Mark Twain) Why should there be a loss of beauty or poetry because I can understand something intellectually? I can still enjoy a sunset even if I know it's not the sun vanishing but Earth rotating that's causing it. Richard wrote: "Just to add some references, loss of innocence through learning is a common theme, such as with Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, my favorite quote: All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!” I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. “Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. Just to add some references, loss of innocence through learning is a common theme, such as with Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, my favorite quote: (view spoiler) In the end, it is our own view of ourselves that determines what knowledge is and how it affects us. One gains more knowledge and, in the process, changes. Through it, one loses the more simple life where the answers are easy or not even important. Yet, in knowing more, one loses innocence, as Piranesi does in his expanding knowledge. This is part of knowing oneself better and understanding where one is in the world. Knowledge is understanding the world and how it works better, such as Piranesi learning his true past and where he actually is. I think there is a distinction here between knowledge, loss of innocence. So I think in this case not knowing was better than knowing. Because if we had told my dad we would always have wondered now if him not making it had been caused by having to deal with this information when he needed to recover. So we decided not to tell him - for his protection but maybe even More so our own. As this was during the pandemic we weren't allowed to visit him, so he would have had to deal with this information all by himself alone in a hospital room fighting for his life. When my dad was in hospital after brain tumor surgery his brother died and we had to decide if we should tell him. Those white lies we tell to protect others, I think they are absolutely necessary for us as humans to live our lives. Overall more knowledge about the world is a good thing that doesn't diminish the beauty of the world, but where inter-personnel relationships and peace of mind or even mental health comes into play, ignorance may be bliss. I think it makes sense to distinguish between the big picture and the personal experience.
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