Issue183 FLY AW小组第40次作业（519字）

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Issue183  第7篇 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧！
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作者：寄托家园作文版普通用户     共用时间：78分35秒     283 words
从2006年6月13日18时14分到2006年6月13日19时78分
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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and more mysterious.
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The speaker asserts that things become more complex and more mysterious instead of more comprehensible as human beings acquire more knowledge, which is rather an illusion than a matter of fact.

Admittedly, human beings often tend to feel that the world become more complex and more mysterious with increasing knowledge. Some people compare one's acquired knowledge with a circle, and analogize one's accessible unknown area with the circle's bound. They argue that when one acquire more knowledge, the detectable unknown field also increases dramatically, providing one more unsolved problems, and making one's world more difficult to be understood. Students usually would like to support this point of view, because questions in examinations become increasingly complex and mysterious as they acquire more knowledge. However, this point of view has confused people's cognition with the basic nature of the researching objects, and has misunderstood the relationship between cognition and comprehensibility.

First of all, the basic nature of researching objects, which decides the corresponding complexity, does not vary according to human being's cognition. For example, the Earth has continents and oceans, rivers and mountains, forests and deserts, which have constructed a complex and mysterious planet for living creatures. Prehistoric people could only see part of the Earth when they were restricted by transportation and observation, which is relatively smaller and simpler, while modern human beings can view the entire planet nowadays, which is larger and more complex. Nevertheless, the Earth itself has not become more complex at all, no matter how much people can understand, or even no matter whether human beings exist. As a result, things cannot become more complex or more mysterious, because the complexity of a certain researching object is determined by its basic nature other than people's cognition.

Besides, the increasingly complex cognition does not reduce the comprehensibility of the researching objects. Also take the planet of Earth for example. Although the image of Earth is more complex in the mind of modern human beings than that of prehistoric people, the image is also more clear and more detailed, which indicates that modern people know the planet better than prehistoric ones. With increasing knowledge, which results from broader, better, and more complex cognition, people are able to explain unsolved problems in previous times, such as the movement of continents, the currents of oceans, the variation of rivers, and the alternation of mountains. It cannot be denied that the continents, oceans, rivers, and mountains become increasingly comprehensible with the accumulation of knowledge. While the unknown areas of modern human beings could not be considered more comprehensible by prehistoric ones, the world studied by prehistoric people becomes increasingly comprehensible to modern generations. Therefore, while people's cognition becomes more complex or more mysterious with the accumulating knowledge, the comprehensibility of researching objects is increased rather than reduced.

In conclusion, while the complexity of researching objects does not vary according to people's cognition, their comprehensibility increases as human beings acquire more knowledge. The total area owned by researching objects does not vary according to the circle owned by human beings, and the area of circle increases more quickly than the circle's bound.