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Is there a collection of all human knowledge ever created ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Recently I was wandering if there is someone or some group preserving , collecting , organizing and publishing all the knowledge of mankind ever created throughout its existence so that if ever mankind faces the 6th mass extinction we don't have to reinvent the wheel and can have a kick start to our new post apocalyptic civilization .

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say "complete" can even be sufficiently defined in this case. Every functional definition I can think of has a limiting factor.

Let's try to define knowledge. What kind of information qualifies? We can usually think of important, useful info like physics and medicine. But what about other data, like sports game stats, atmospheric sensor readings, or even something more esoteric, like the location data of every object on earth.

And even if we could have the information of every single thing at any particular time, what about when things change in the next second? And the one afterwards?

Essentially, nothing will ever be "complete". Thanks for listening to my rant on semantics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That was a lovely rant on semantics. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it!