**Curio coughs, and replies to Draco's announcement, "Er... I think not, amice. If I remember correctly, my starting first entitles me to a short speech to reply to the comment that the rest of you made. I'll delay my speech on peace in order to reply to the comments.**
Draco wrote:
Our good friend Curio claims that only personal knowledge exists.
Curio: I don't think so - unless the Punic girl really did fog my thoughts... No, looking at the records the scriba have made, I see that I spoke of absolute knowledge, not just personal knowledge.
Draco: It shows that he is definitely still a Briton, and not as Roman has he'd like to be, nonne (cheeky wink at Curio)?
Curio: Amice, I am quite happy being a hybrid, thank you. Bear in mind I don't just have Briton and Roman origins - I am also influenced by those Germanic peoples who will, in centuries to come, conquer Britannia - those known as the Saxons. **Curio considers the nature of this knowledge, and decides that if Draco can know of boomerangs, and Sokarus of glass, then Curio can have a time machine.**
Draco: Knowledge is not always bound to observation, by the way. Think of mathematics or physics. Mathematical knowledge is obtained without observation.
Curio: But look at mathematical knowledge that is gained without observation. All of it is based on earlier knowledge, more basic mathematics that does have a basis in observation. For instance, even the extremes of theoretical physics and mathematics, such as dark matter, was thought of when considering that the amount of matter in the universe and the speed the universe was expanding at did not match.
Draco: Curio sails around these limits by implying the infinite potential of a collective memory. But a collective of finite memories does not build an infinite one. In fact it never can.
Curio: But written knowledge, theoretically, can. Even assuming that knowledge is infinite, then knowledge does not only have to be stored in a mind. It can be stored on paper, stone, hard disks, and other such methods of storage.
I shall give my talks on absolute peace on Tuesday, amici.
**Curio sits again, glad that his philosophy has no stereotype - he is slightly safer from that loud voice in the audience.**