A Few Keys to Everything

1.  There is no such thing as tacit knowledge. Polanyi’s concept of knowledge that cannot be easily expressed is erroneous.  All knowledge is logical and can be expressed or we don’t know it.  What cannot be easily expressed is the question or areas of questions juxtaposed against knowledge.
2. The question is a perceived or realized lack of logical knowledge structure.Scholarship has largely skipped defining the question.  We have question research going on, but no one seems to be simply defining what a question is.  Understanding the definition of the question unlocks the human mind and knowledge working processes.  There are two main types of questions, knowledge creation questions and learning questions.  The knowledge creation questions realized a perceived lack of knowledge structure in knowledge overall while the learning questions realize a lack of knowledge structure in the individual or group intellect.
3. Knowledge creation puts knowledge into the social knowledge base, while learning draws it out.Seems simple enough, but this is largely confused in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and knowledge management circles.
4. Knowledge working is not performance.Knowledge management is really a knowledge-centric variant of instructional design, which is performance-centric.  Robert Mager impeccably defined performance years ago, but Mager did not tie knowledge working into his definition specifically.  In a nutshell, knowledge management professionals aren’t seeing performance and performance experts aren’t connecting into knowledge working.
5. Artificial intelligence is a misnomer.Intelligence and knowledge creation are largely confused in scholarship.  Knowledge creation is the source of all new knowledge.  A person can be intelligent without ever creating new knowledge.  Likewise, a knowledge creator isn’t by default intelligent.  Intelligence is knowledge stored that can be retrieved.  By this definition, any computer is already artificially intelligent, but no computer today can create knowledge.  The term should be artificial knowledge creation.  Singularity IS artificial knowledge creation.
6. Empiricism vs. rationalism solved.The answer to the age-old question of whether or not knowledge is empirical, or rooted in experience, or rational, which is thought built on thought is “both.”  Scientific knowledge is empirical and convergent while technological knowledge is rational and divergent.  Scientific method is a knowledge creation method for science, and a rational knowledge creation method I developed is called ”Directional Categorization.”
7. Three dynamics of society.There are three dynamics that comprise any social order.  1) Knowledge advance – the center is knowledge creation, 2) Social context – the center is the balance of interests (includes governance, government, values, ethics, legitimacy, etc.), and 3) Economy – The center is supply and demand (includes education as a feeder pool for industry, industry, and economic development.  When these three dynamics are out of balance, social issue emerge.  Knowledge advance is essentially social advance in science, technology, and spirituality.  As such, this dynamic tends to drive the other two.