ABSTRACT
Knowledge is a relationship between two terms, at least one of which contains information about the other. We have not yet been able to find an answer to the two great questions we have asked-where does the information get stored, and how does it get from one term to the other? In a search for an answer, we have come along several different roads only to find that, contrary to proverbial expectations, none has led to Rome. When we tried to come from within and started with consciousness, we found that consciousness does not really store information and that such information as it does store cannot be represented. What is more, we found that what consciousness does succeed in representing is not information about the world. We fared differently but no better when we tried to come from the front. The idea that information is transferred when or because there is a causal link between the two terms turned out to be a pipe-dream because such causally induced information cannot stand on its own two feet but is in need of linguistic expression. Thus the information gets bushed, and by the time it finally comes out, it is no longer causally related to the first term of the relationship.
