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Feynman wrote about this in one of his books. it's really hard to understand how someone else understands something. but you can say, well imagine it's orange a
by jfoutz 8y ago
Feynman wrote about this in one of his books. it's really hard to understand how someone else understands something. but you can say, well imagine it's orange and spherical and kind of hairy, and they'll have a picture in their mind you can kinda work with.
- schoen 8y agoAre you sure you're not thinking of the "hairy green ball thing" from his discussion of visualizing topology examples? https://books.google.com/books?id=_gA_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT87&lpg=PT87&dq=feynman+%22hairy+green+ball+thing https://books.google.com/books?id=_gA_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT87&lpg=P...
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- bemmu 8y agoFrom "What Do You Care What Other People Think": I was a kid growing up in Far Rockaway, I had a friend named Bernie Walker. We both had “labs” at home, and we would do various “experiments.” One time, we were discussing something — we must have been eleven or twelve at the time — and I said, “But thinking is nothing but talking to yourself inside. “Oh yeah?” Bernie said. “Do you know the crazy shape of the crankshaft in a car?” “Yeah, what of it?” “Good. Now, tell me: how did you describe it when you were talking to yourself?” So I learned from Bernie that thoughts can be visual as well as verbal.