09/11/2024
Mind blowing: inductive learning vs deductive learning. Please let me grab a corner of your mind for a moment. What if the one hand clapping was a thought experiment about physics? ok think Newton's laws or Doppler effect. Ok doppler effect is a stretch but I promise if you overthink enough it's in there too. I mean the other hand is needed to complete the action. Unless you are a smart allec and the fingers colliding against the palm will serve the same purpose. (No you weren't clever and that didn't change anything about my point.) More importantly, then what if the tree falls in a forest is all about quantum physics? Sorry let me clarify. E=mc(squared), energy is matter, most of an atom is space, some people believe physical objects don't actually touch but the "repel" bubble is just that strong the closer you get in terms of infinitely small distance. Without observation the laws of physics change (relax if you will). Think double slit experiment and Schrödinger's Cat. My point? So back to the one hand clapping, with or without the other hand there is nothing but space and energy. Meditate upon that wisdom for a moment. Let me tie this together. What if, instead of scientific method, teaching formulaes and inductive teaching, the concept of one hand clapping was monks teaching each other quantum physics by deductive learning thus expecting the student to figure it out? Mind blowing if you accept it. I'm done there but then the overthinking sinks in. Then why do European men get credit for stuff that's been around hundreds of years before them? Because organized accountability of knowledge. Libraries, Scientific Method, documentation, and passing of that knowledge thus having the ability to "claim" credit for it. Then it just becomes knowledge driven by ego in addition to secrets of our environment. Those who seek knowledge for the purpose of knowledge have to be nudged to take credit for it in the eyes of their piers. While other seek to unlock secrets just for attention/credit/ego. I mean yeah it might be a small percentage, but it might be an undocumented large percentage. How can anyone know for sure? really? Side note: this is the result that started with asking myself about a sonic boom in space. No there isn't one, it only happens in the atmosphere and the pilot doesn't hear it. Am I really over thinking or is everyone else just underthinking? That sounds egotistical but it's not meant to. I just mean that having 5 answers to something simple may be inefficient but that's just a symptom of greater advantages of thinking more than other people. Both have advantages.
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