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Indeed. Perhaps a simpler formulation is that once we've achieved the enlightenment of understood something in depth, we forget why someone new to it does not
by SkyMarshal 5y ago
Indeed. Perhaps a simpler formulation is that once we've achieved the enlightenment of understood something in depth, we forget why someone new to it does not yet understand it. We have difficulty understanding why they don't understand it, and explaining it in such a way as to fill in their gaps.
- pizza 5y agoIt's interesting - some part of my intuition tells me, only something an uninitiate could not understand is what stops everybody from understanding a hard topic- but then how do uninitiates transcend from pre-understanding to understanding? Perhaps the process of understanding is a stable and reliably predictable one.. which bodes as good news for, well, everything!
- dqpb 5y agoExactly. Communication isn’t about the idea. It’s about the state transitions that have to occur in the listener for them to become a carrier of the idea.