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Originally Posted by DGG
Well, in a way similar to René Descartes, who said: "I think, therefore I am". Off course, we cannot even be quite sure there is such a thing as the self, doing the thinking, but there is at least something experiencing itself to be me and thinking. This is what I mean with knowledge in its deepest, philosophical meaning.
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Ok thanks, DGG. There's a BIG difference between not having to know anything and not being able to know anything with absolute certainty. If we don't attempt to gain knowledge of the world around us, the deepest philosophical knowledge "I think, therefore I am" may become the famous last words. Except there'll be no one around to make them famous.
We are physically perhaps the weakest creatures on earth and we procreate at an alarmingly slow rate. That's quite enough "flaws" to compensate for by using our most prominent feature. Even if it can't make us as certain as some of us pretend, it can obviously keep us alive as a species.