The real allure of knowledge, per se, is not that it empowers one to boast of an impressive collection of facts, but that it gives both depth and breadth to the human experience, ultimately enriching our potential as well as our accomplishments. You're definitely on the right track about everything boiling down to pleasure, Hadriel, but why stop there? The human experience is more than just pleasure. You'd have to use a pretty broad definition of that word to account for just how much we benefit from all sorts of episodes in our lives that would appear farthest from pleasurable.
