That’s my exact point, not everything has an objective correct answer, something Google is only able to provide. Creating a sufficient answer to some questions is based on the subjective experience one gains or is able to glean from others.
If there’s no objective, correct answer to a question then the point is moot. If you’re getting something out of some individual’s subjective answer it’s based on the want to build a relationship or gain understanding of that person which inherently has nothing to do with the question itself.
That’s fine and all, but not really what I understand your original question to be asking. People have experiences, and those experiences are theirs: they can’t give them to you. If you like hearing about it anyway, cool, but you might as well read a poem.
Edit: substitute “a book” for “Google” in your question and see how it’s a weird take.
There is value in talking to people, but that has nothing to do with a question or situation you might Google or look up in a book. These are fundamentally different things.
Subjective information is inherently less valuable than objective information for trying to learn something unless you are writing a survey paper. If you want to have a chat to combat loneliness or try to better understand your grandmother you’re not answering a question so you wouldn’t look it up anyway. If you’re googling what it feels like to make a roux you are probably not neurotypical.
When someone is teaching you to cook a roux by example, they will have you smell it as the cooking progresses. They’ll explain the “nutty” smell and how it evolves but you’ll never really recognize the right smell without engaging in the experience with someone guiding you through it because they’ve done it. A Google recipe will tell you what it should smell like, but, if you’re just leaning on that it’s easy to over/under cook it without proper experience. As for sex, it means different things to different people. Especially when considering what X person likes vs what Y person likes. Google wont tell you different things you should try or how to handle a partner into something that you may not be. You understand how to please people based on experience and communication with that person. Then going forward you have the experience and context to know what may feel interesting.
Right, so you can’t explain it in words. You have to experience it yourself.
But experiencing things yourself is not what we’re talking about; if you already have the experience, you don’t need to ask Google (or another person) to confirm it. What we’re talking about is, if you want to find about something you don’t already know about, should you go to Google or get an individual’s take on it, given that individual has experienced it themselves.
Ask a person what sex feels like or how should a roux smell - these are not things you can explain in words, whether it’s in an article or in person.
That’s not true at all.
You’re describing qualia which are necessarily subjective. These accounts are not helpful whether you get them from Google or anywhere else.
Anecdotes may be interesting, but on the whole they are not as useful as objective answers.
That’s my exact point, not everything has an objective correct answer, something Google is only able to provide. Creating a sufficient answer to some questions is based on the subjective experience one gains or is able to glean from others.
No?
If there’s no objective, correct answer to a question then the point is moot. If you’re getting something out of some individual’s subjective answer it’s based on the want to build a relationship or gain understanding of that person which inherently has nothing to do with the question itself.
That’s fine and all, but not really what I understand your original question to be asking. People have experiences, and those experiences are theirs: they can’t give them to you. If you like hearing about it anyway, cool, but you might as well read a poem.
Edit: substitute “a book” for “Google” in your question and see how it’s a weird take.
Talking to people and hearing their stories and experiences has no value to you?
There is value in talking to people, but that has nothing to do with a question or situation you might Google or look up in a book. These are fundamentally different things.
Subjective information is inherently less valuable than objective information for trying to learn something unless you are writing a survey paper. If you want to have a chat to combat loneliness or try to better understand your grandmother you’re not answering a question so you wouldn’t look it up anyway. If you’re googling what it feels like to make a roux you are probably not neurotypical.
Go on then.
When someone is teaching you to cook a roux by example, they will have you smell it as the cooking progresses. They’ll explain the “nutty” smell and how it evolves but you’ll never really recognize the right smell without engaging in the experience with someone guiding you through it because they’ve done it. A Google recipe will tell you what it should smell like, but, if you’re just leaning on that it’s easy to over/under cook it without proper experience. As for sex, it means different things to different people. Especially when considering what X person likes vs what Y person likes. Google wont tell you different things you should try or how to handle a partner into something that you may not be. You understand how to please people based on experience and communication with that person. Then going forward you have the experience and context to know what may feel interesting.
Right, so you can’t explain it in words. You have to experience it yourself.
But experiencing things yourself is not what we’re talking about; if you already have the experience, you don’t need to ask Google (or another person) to confirm it. What we’re talking about is, if you want to find about something you don’t already know about, should you go to Google or get an individual’s take on it, given that individual has experienced it themselves.
Right