Man proceeds in the fog. But when he looks back to judge people of the past, he sees no fog on their path. From his present, which was their faraway future, their path looks perfectly clear to him, good visibility all the way. Looking back, he sees the path, he sees the people proceeding, he sees their mistakes, but not the fog.
Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts
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You watch tiktok feed. I sit and watch o3 & R1 think. We ain't the same.
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profoundly this analogy reframes our understanding of mental processes
the myriad ways in which we “use the world to think”
millennia of first-hand experience from the lives and letters of great artists, scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs.
"Thinking outside the brain means skillfully engaging entities external to our heads — the feelings and movements of our bodies, the physical spaces in which we learn and work, and the minds of the other people around us — drawing them into our own mental processes. By reaching beyond the brain to recruit these “extra-neural” resources, we are able to focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively — to entertain ideas that would be literally unthinkable by the brain alone."
“Our minds are all threaded together,”
the myriad ways in which we “use the world to think”
millennia of first-hand experience from the lives and letters of great artists, scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs.
"Thinking outside the brain means skillfully engaging entities external to our heads — the feelings and movements of our bodies, the physical spaces in which we learn and work, and the minds of the other people around us — drawing them into our own mental processes. By reaching beyond the brain to recruit these “extra-neural” resources, we are able to focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively — to entertain ideas that would be literally unthinkable by the brain alone."
“Our minds are all threaded together,”
Frames skew our view if the world when it comes to maps.
Mercator projection vs real size. We see mis-framing about counties.
If you believe this mis-framing, you could believe Greenland could beat Africa in a wrestling match by looking at the map. But USA, Russia, Greenand and Canada are the most oversized countries
Mercator projection vs real size. We see mis-framing about counties.
If you believe this mis-framing, you could believe Greenland could beat Africa in a wrestling match by looking at the map. But USA, Russia, Greenand and Canada are the most oversized countries