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That is very true. Transmittable knowledge doesn't capture the wirings that was required to produce the knowledge. I was watching the film on the Indian mathema
by dharma1 10y ago
That is very true. Transmittable knowledge doesn't capture the wirings that was required to produce the knowledge. I was watching the film on the Indian mathematician Ramanujan who had an immense intuition of mathematics, and really wondering how mathematical intuition, or intuition in general develops, and what intuition even means.
I am still not sure but after seeing Schmidhuber's talk last week, I think it is being able to find regularities/patterns, resulting in a compressed representation that allows to understand and compress some aspect of the world, and building layers (abstractions) of those compressed representations. This allows you to navigate through very large search spaces much much faster.
It's a fascinating subject, and at the core of what we are. I recommend the film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity_(fil...