Experience vs Knowledge which is better?

    Experience vs knowledge has been a matter of debate since human beings started discussing. I specifically pointed to human discussion since, it would have been impossible to achieve human discussion without human language. Language is an effective(which means to say that it is better not to judge it as good or bad) tool created by human beings to understand the Nature of universe, but our own heart tells us that this is a really inadequate(does not mean useless) tool for understanding reality of life. Tools can be handy but it cannot replace the intelligence in your heart. 

    But surely we do have some crude sense of adventure or sportiness which makes us blindly believe in the tools rather than ourselves. Critical thinking reveals to us that language or thoughts that we have emotionally invested ourselves heavily in are actually meaningless sounds to which we have associated real world objects/emotions/people. This is objective thinking which we keep recycling time and again in our brain. Objectivity is a function of left brain(logical/pattern based/conscious brain). While subjective thinking(abstract/subconscious/creative) which is a function of our right brain traps us in a world of our own imagination(but a reality for the person experiencing it). This is why we have human courts rather that machine courts. Because a machine can identify if a person steals but cannot understand the reason why he stole something. 

    Human laws are objective but only a human judge can consider the subjective aspects of the situation that required the breaking of the law by another human being. For example a human judge will reduce the sentence or leave a person free who stole food out of desperate hunger. But a computer AI judge cannot assimilate all the aspects of subjective reasons. 

    Personally I feel a delicate balance of objectivity(Knowledge) and subjectivity(Experience) is what will guide us in the correct path. Experience is however a far better tool for judging situations in individual's life but social obligations force people to rely on the recorded previous experience of other human beings which we call as knowledge. A human judge can sometimes intuitively judge a human being as innocent even if all evidence points against the person being judged. 

    A human judge basically balances his own knowledge of applicable laws and his own years of experience in his field of work and also his humanity to create a balanced judgement. This is really tricky and there can never be a perfect judgement based on experience or knowledge rather a balanced tradeoff. Life is more a negotiation(tradeoff) rather that an absolute state(absolute/ideal states exist only in the our objective mind). 

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