You die and your consciousness wakes up in a void. You have none of the 5 senses - no external stimuli at all. Do you think it would be possible to learn anything new just by rehashing things from memory or does learning require external stimuli?
In theory, but that would be more in the realm of philosophy. You can think hard about something you already know and deduce knew knowledge from there, but you would have no way of confirming that knowledge or putting it to a test.
In short, you end up like the ancient Greeks who could come up with a bunch of hypothetical statements, and could only assume that they were correct.
I think you could make a case that you could learn new forms of pure math if you had a method of storing information in your brain.
You need to read Asimov’s The Last Answer.
Thanks! Longtime Asimov fan but this is the first time I’ve ever read this story. Good one.
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Requires external stimuli. The human brain is kind of designed to take in lots of information and process it. Interact with things etc.
One would go crazy. This would be an extreme verion on solitary confinement.
To the question. One may learn lots if untrue things.
There’s that idea that your thoughts are determined by quantum particles interacting with your brain. So if you still have a body, even without your senses, you might still be able to just pull information out of the aether through this process.
