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41 Knowledge & Mind

Personal knowledge is not just a slice of the body of the public knowledge, its facts and its propositions, to spare oneself a lookup, but rather, it is the recognition of relationships and partial patterns, emerging from experience and gradually strengthening connections.

Wrong intelligence focus

Posted on January 19, 2024 by x28

There is a paper talking about skills that are theoretical or intellectual vs. those that are practical and embodied. I partially agree.
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Imagination and understanding

Posted on March 26, 2023 by x28

There is a connection between ‘imagine’ and ‘understand’ that I had not previously noticed: they are linked to ‘put in front of’ and ‘stand in front of’. Continue reading →

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Visualizing the “shoulders”

Posted on October 26, 2022 by x28

We are “standing on the shoulders of giants” who, in turn, were leveraging the work of those who have gone before. And if their incremental contributions are put into atomic, tweet-length sentences, we can visualize these relationships in impressive ways. Continue reading →

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Guesses about wisdom

Posted on May 6, 2018 by x28

How does wisdom differ from knowledge? In my understanding, wisdom grows very slowly, and it is often about what is really important, or actually, what is not important.
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Expectations make the difference

Posted on December 19, 2017 by x28

When a chord with a ‘nonharmonic tone’ is played out of context, it sounds awful, but when we hear it as a ‘passing tone’ or as a ‘neighbor tone’, we don’t notice the dissonance — because we expect that it will immediately be resolved. Continue reading →

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Working memory

Posted on October 22, 2017 by x28

The spatial and temporal functions of the working memory may be not only be interrelated. Stephen Downes now expressed the idea that they are indeed similar.
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Sequential requirements

Posted on July 4, 2016 by x28

Does a neural network need domain knowledge? I think artificial ones do, but human ones do not because they use recognition from the beginning.
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Homunculus vs. Emissary

Posted on March 20, 2014 by x28

Downes explains that representational theories only work if we assume a little “homunculus” inside ourselves. Therefore he emphasises the role of recognition. McGilchrist calls the representational mode an “emissary” who needs to return to his master, the presentational mode, for reintegration.
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Metonymies and literalism

Posted on February 9, 2014 by x28

Keith Hamon’s wonderful post on metaphors vs. models, reminded me of similar tropes mistaken for models. He sees the rhizome as a metaphor and explains how viewing it as a model, is a misunderstanding. This quote suggests who is most … Continue reading →

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#change11 Community vs. Artefacts

Posted on February 28, 2012 by x28

I found it difficult to understand the idea of knowledge of a community. It helped me to think of a community of experts, of becoming like one, and of the continuum of actefacts exchanged among them.
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