Catching up with my reading...
On 6/03/2023 6:10 am, kirby urner wrote:
On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 1:18 PM Andrius Kulikauskas <math4wisdom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Agreed. I have always said learning is a whole body experience and it is different for every individual. I am a highly visual learner, and essentially create mental images for most things I understand. I am also a highly kinaesthetic learner and by that I mean I like to walk-through ideas in sequence as if in real life space and time. That is how I handle even very abstract concepts. So the jump to mathematical equations is a struggle for me unless I immediately see how they relate to space-time.
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I think that a major reason why Kirby, Jon and I are able to make
real progress in our letters is that we are able to relate to real
life activity, such as the videos we are creating, so that we are
not just talking together but also working together. So I think
this is a key dimension of "atomic learning exercises" that we
might design and conduct together. It is one thing to learn on
one's own, accidentally, and another to do so willfully and even
systematically, and yet another to do that together with others,
for shared learning and shared understanding, which is what I
aspire with "learning exercises".
Meanwhile, it means a lot to try to convey to you these frameworksAndrius, I love how you try to visualise everything. However, I am not familiar with mathematical symbols and nomenclature so sometimes you jump too far for me to follow.
so they would become real for you.
I have made an initial video about that, "Surface Structure vs.Interesting that after reading your email, then the presentation, it finally made sense when I watched your video.
Deep Structure"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_xJ_ph0cwM
which received 600 views in the first 3 days and so this series
may generate interest.
Your examples are real in specific contexts. For example the solution to creating an equilateral triangle, could be a kinaesthetic one of cutting three equal length sticks. Or a 2D version of pencil and paper with a ruler and just guessing a third point, then measuring the distances to A and B, then adjusting your guess. Perfectly valid, "real" solution. In your video a drawing compass was used for one solution (plus the upside down second solution), then you changed the context again to go beyond the 2D paper and consider the 3D and multidimensional possibilities.
The word "context" is just a label. But these examples are real.
I earned a BA in Physics and a PhD in Philosophy as part of thatWow, and it took me 5 years to complete a BSc in Cell Biology & Biochemistry which I have never used.
quest, not instead of it.
Absolute truth in the context of this Universe we live in. There may be others (even if it turns out there is only one God).
Absolute truth means that I am not interested in "a truth" but
rather "the truth". My deepest value is "living by truth" and so
my relationship with truth has to be pragmatic and tentative. But
it is not intended as a personal truth, it is intended as a
universal truth.
Jon writes about a "system" and a perspective upon a system.A real "structural system" that you can experience in space-time must have an inside and an outside - like a tetrahedron (4 sides).
Jon refers to physics as if it was realPhysics is a different kind of adventure. It conceptualises the behaviour and structure of the Universe at scales that are beyond our direct experience.
I keep wide open the possibility that the Emergently framework is realEmergently is a thinking tool based on using metaphor to distract the brain from linear cause and effect thinking. The framework is a way of visualising the brainstorming process, and the structure also is a metaphor for regenerative development or synergy, where 1 + 1 = 4, requiring the context of diversity and interdependence.
