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Your post is a great description of the phenomenon that Tableb describes in his book Antifragility, as "Lecturing Birds how to fly" [1] Essentially the argument
by DINKDINK 10y ago
Your post is a great description of the phenomenon that Tableb describes in his book Antifragility, as "Lecturing Birds how to fly" [1] Essentially the argument is: we learn by doing and formalize that knowledge in research. Birds don't need to be lectured on fluid mechanics(drag,lift,etc) to understand how to fly.
[1]http://www.yourparttimehrmanager.com/lecturing-birds-to-fly-overreliance-on-formal-education/ http://www.yourparttimehrmanager.com/lecturing-birds-to-fly-...
- kleer001 10y agoAnd it seems to me a trivial step to then say that formalized knowledge churned through the science leads us to things that are impossible for birds.
- jacquesm 10y agoThe counterpoint to that is people that have read a book on what a certain organism is supposed to do / usually does and then extrapolate that to all organisms of that variety in all situations. They usually forget that said organism hasn't read that book and will do whatever it damn well pleases given the physical constraints it finds itself under.