Without the brain (and in the future, brains augmented with AI) to generalize usefulness across contexts—to effectively find wise metaphors that transcend a situation—information doesn’t serve us. Without knowing why, we can’t find laws (basic principles) that can be generalized… like the law of gravity, which applies not to any particular object but to all objects that have mass. Effects without an understanding of the causes behind them, on the other hand, are just bunches of data points floating in the ether, offering nothing useful by themselves.
