Knowledge undergoes immaturation when correct answers survive the judgment that makes them answerable to truth and human dignity.
An answer can satisfy a criterion while leaving the authority of that criterion unexplored. Beginning with neural networks, the essay turns to Kant to ask what makes correction legitimate and why dignity places demands on knowledge that usefulness cannot settle. It develops the claim that knowing already involves answerability: our judgments must remain open to what they concern and to the persons they affect. The trace of practical judgment preserves this capacity for renewed discernment. Immaturation occurs when accepted answers survive while the ability to understand, question, and revise them contracts. Writing can sustain judgment by carrying forward the reasons that make an answer worthy of assent.
