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"Do not try and bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth...there is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that ben
by sharemywin 9y ago
"Do not try and bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth...there is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself."
―Spoon Boy to Neo
category/hierarchy/graph/rules are important but I suspect only our conscious/social minds works in that abstraction.
- tanilama 9y agoNevertheless, our brain is able to model such abstractions just fine. The capacity to represent such non-differentiable structure is the key.
- sharemywin 9y agoBut the representation isn't static. We can learn new symbol systems and adjust them all the time. Plus create rules of thumb to make re-processing easier. and go back and/forth. Think of an elephant. now an Asian elephant walking by a river. your image probably was pretty abstract then got more vivid. Then re-adjusted to add the river. So you went from symbols to a more detailed model like a generative model, but you probably only have had a few examples of elephants to generate from.