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Agreed. "Shit you don't know you know" is actually mentioned at the end of the article as a sub-category of the "shit you know you know" which delves into psych
by JangoSteve 13y ago
Agreed. "Shit you don't know you know" is actually mentioned at the end of the article as a sub-category of the "shit you know you know" which delves into psychology and theories of hidden or repressed memories and/or knowledge, which I know little about from an academic point of view. Also noting that, just because you can't put all of your knowledge into words, doesn't mean you don't have it. Or is that essentially what you were saying?
- joe_the_user 13y agoI would mention that not-knowing-you-know something may not be a matter of hiding or repression but a matter of factors inherent to human "computation" - if we make the assumption that the most important kind of human knowledge does not come as static facts but as dynamic algorithms, ways to do things. Assume a person has a bunch of algorithms available to them. They may not be able to tell if algorithm X works with problem Y until they start interacting with problem Y and find out that heck algorithm X does work. With this approach, we can imagine knowledge that actually can only exist hidden within multiple of level not-knowing, at least if knowing is being able to fully characterize one's abilities.