RE: Natural Order and Science
February 17, 2016 at 9:04 am
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2016 at 9:05 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(February 16, 2016 at 11:59 pm)Emjay Wrote: Metaphors are beautiful... the ultimate way of explaining things by leveraging what you already know/represent. A is to B as X is to Y saves a lot of explanation and I think in neural terms makes for a very efficient form of learning in that A only needs to be associated with X (and B with Y) and the rest - the relationships - already exist. Kind of similar to leveraging the power of musical memory in poetry by making it rhyme... latching memories onto others.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Shaka, when the walls fell. Temba, his arms wide.
I like the point of learning on a neural level. I see knowledge as a context of information created by neural information. The brain does try to understand new things in terms of what it has already experienced.
