Richard Feynman - Names Don't Constitute Knowledge
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Alan Watts: Bigger Wiggle
It seems those two have said something about which you are saying now: people by default try to understand by compartmentalizing ideas in little boxes. A lot of the time they don't even know what's in the box, they just know the name that's on it and what the stuff inside tends to look like.
That's just a shortcut we take to manage our limited resources.
Works for me. I've been to Tengchong twice over the last 16 years and it's a very interesting area historically: the British used to have a trading base there for Burma-China trade, and there is a lot of local geothermal activity, hot springs, lakes, old architecture, nature, etc. Relevant quotes from https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ...
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell (1950)
A smart machine is a profoundly paradoxical entity, but a paradox is not a supernatural act. A paradox is a symptom of a breakdown in two competing definitional systems. - Bruce Sterling (1995)
Once you've got some words looking back at you, you can take two or three — or throw them away and look for others. - Bernard Malamud
Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is. - Guindon
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. - 'Neil Gaiman on open source', Peter Hilton
When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less. - Humpty Dumpty ("in a rather scornful tone"), 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There' (1871), Lewis Carroll
A rose by any other name will end up as a cabbage. - Sam Gardiner
A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. - Max Weinreich
Words build bridges in to unexplored regions. - Adolf Hitler
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. - H. H. Williams
Blind monkey at the typewriter. - Robert Burnham Jr., Astronomer (1983)
Richard Feynman - Names Don't Constitute Knowledge & Alan Watts: Bigger Wiggle
It seems those two have said something about which you are saying now: people by default try to understand by compartmentalizing ideas in little boxes. A lot of the time they don't even know what's in the box, they just know the name that's on it and what the stuff inside tends to look like.
That's just a shortcut we take to manage our limited resources.