We are the ‘Don Juans of cognition’, he said, whose ‘knowledge will take its revenge on us, as ignorance exacted its revenge in the Middle Ages.’
Knowledge without the pleasure of learning. The pleasure that comes from struggle like that of reaching the mountain top, it is greater for those who made the walk than those who drove for they who walked have grasped the scale of the summit's context.
i.e. The brain itself relies on the connctions to other points of knowing when incorporating new knowing.
