The Learning Ladder

  • Data => Information => Knowledge => Insight => Understanding => Wisdom
  • Noise becomes data when we collect it/them.
  • data becomes information as we glean meaning through our senses to form a perception of local reality. These meaning making experiences of subjectivity are qualia.
  • information becomes knowledge as we recall, describe, name, explain, record, classify into taxonomy our qualia, so that others may compare their experiences to ours.
  • knowledge becomes understanding as we collect, combine, distill, cull, interpolate, and extrapolate our knowledge into models, lexicons, theory, postulates, principles, axioms, and such that anyone can apply to new and old experiences.
  • insight arises spontaneously as knowledge and understanding information new experience.
  • Wisdom develops through the personal application of knowledge, insight, and understanding.
    • Wisdom often arises when we place trust in intuition.
    • tom-campbell says: wisdom arises from the patient, non-judgmental contemplation of the challenges we face and the skeptical, open-minded evaluation of the results of applying our understanding, knowledge, and insight.
The Learning Ladder