From Divergence to Convergence: Back to Epistemology

Wheel has come full circle since the time earliest. The Journey of mankind started with an earnest attempt to analyze knowledge. What does it mean to know something as opposed to knowing it. It was the first real step away from Barbarism though people might disagree remarking that invention of fire was. Everyone knows something or the other – even the animals; it is the analysis of that knowledge itself – its limitations and weaknesses – that draws the fine line between Neo-Barbarians and Barbarians. Lately however, in our mindless pursuit of newer lands and unknown riches, we derided epistemology, as a pursuit of Jobless alcoholics. Times change – and as usual, with the advent of a thousands branches which were meant to explore the raw knowledge itself, the branches themselves became unwieldy, inapplicable. Enter Convergence – the combining of two or more branches to devise the process of analyzing amassed knowledge and systematically use it to unlock the combination of other such branches. Epistemological pursuits are in vogue again – though with changed names and facades. And we are back to the Golden Age of the discovery and analysis of knowledge.