Pio
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What is Intellectual Dark Matter?
"Now, maybe there's something invisible holding our society together in the exact same way a spinning galaxy: Intellectual dark matter. I think we are standing on a large tower of intellectual dark matter, and some of the dark matter has been lost for good, and some of it is still with us. And sometimes, unfortunately, I think we're living on the fumes of institutions that remain on autopilot. But the knowledge has been lost. Intellectual dark matter is a concept that, as far as I can tell, I've only come up with. It's the observation that even if we cannot investigate the knowledge directly, we can ascertain the knowledge exists just as the invisible mass could be detected through its gravitational effects." source: video 
