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"In order to be a perfect and beautiful computing machine, it is not requisite to know what arithmetic is." I was just thinking yesterday that a similar thing

by nacker 14y ago

"In order to be a perfect and beautiful computing machine, it is not requisite to know what arithmetic is." I was just thinking yesterday that a similar thing might be true for human beings. We constantly strive for self-knowledge, what we really want, what we really need, but what if a smoothly functioning "self" is dependent on NOT knowing exactly how our minds work? I'm just going to give up trying to understand myself as a complete waste of time. So far, it feels liberating. YMMV.

nacker 14y ago
“Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essential est invisible pour les yeux.” http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/06/quick-study-satoshi-kanazawa-intelligence?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/thedisadvantageofintelligence http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/06/quick-study-... "Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas"