Deeply Pondering Daniel 1:17

“To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds." - Daniel 1:17 

The first part of this verse is something to ponder. God gave them knowledge. Why doesn't it say that they "learned information from Babylonian literature"? Because that's different. 

Information: Reading that your body's going to stop functioning one day. 

Knowledge: Deeply "getting" how you're not going to live in this lifetime forever, so you need to "number your days" (and not live like a stereotypically reckless teen). A 15 year old won't have this "knowledge" in the same way a 50 year old will. It takes a soulful journey for the latter to deeply "get" this knowledge. AI's non-journeyed "information processing" can't fully help with that. 

The same goes with the "information" vs "knowledge" of "I'm lovable even when I screw up". For the deepest levels of this one especially, you need infinite unconditional love from a God to "understand" that "knowledge". You can't learn it from just "naturally reading" information on a page. 

Anyone who understands dreams like Daniel "gets" this. To understand a dream, you can't "process the information" like a computer. You need to "get it" with your soul, which God helps with.