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I think it’s a nicely summarised challenge to boot. It’s doubtless to me that thinking happens without intermediary symbols; but it’s also obvious that I can’t
by usgroup 2y ago
I think it’s a nicely summarised challenge to boot.
It’s doubtless to me that thinking happens without intermediary symbols; but it’s also obvious that I can’t think deeply without the waypoints and context symbols provide. I think it is a common sense opinion.
- Izkata 2y ago"Language" is a subset of "symbols". I agree with what you said, but it's not representative of the quote in GP. Just a few days ago was "What do you visualize while programming?", and there's a few of us in the comments that, when programming, think symbolically without language: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41869237 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41869237