10-2g1f Imitation = limitation (imitation has limitation)

What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end

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• 10-2g1f1 Natural selection can only operate on phenotypes (physical attributes) and not on genotypes (the knowledge bearing entity). The same (or similar) phenotypes doesn’t mean they share the same genotype.
  • 2-1b Seeing the unseen (面影・うつろい)
  • 2-1b2e1 Understanding comes from copying the information-knowledge as information-knowledge medium; not from copying the substrate
  • 5-2 What counts cannot be counted
• 10-2g1g Scientific knowledge implies location-time-scale-independent applicability
  • 1-2g2t3c The effect of knowledge creation is significant both within a history (distance-independent) and across the multiverse (convergence)
  • 1-2g2q1 Science is about independent replication. Only trust as scientific truth what can be independently verified-replicated.

Related:

• 1-1a5b4.4 Real-time calibration (i.e., recalibration) lets you adapt to the changing landscape
• 2-1a6b ‘Pavlovian association’ & ‘Social proof’ - Understand the arbitrary association formed within your culture. There are no pure indexes for humans.
• 2-1a6c0 If you don’t create an explanation, you will be enmeshed in the situation (analog). You have to transcend your situation-culture-parochiality by explanations (digital). Explanation is the way to universality.
• 9-1b You can’t really transfer your knowledge to others, because each knowledge has to be created individually
• 9-1b0 Knowledge (both explicit and inexplicit) is created individually. You don’t say “I took it from him.” You can’t blame “he took it from me.”
• 9-4b2d1 Explanatory knowledge creation ≠ Biological knowledge (the former, specifically scientific knowledge, is more composable, and thus more universal)
• 10-1b4 Children concentrically embody their ever-widening knowledge structures by testing the degree of its correspondence in comparison with other members of the society
• On imitation
  • 1-2g1d We are universal explainers. We can transcend our biological limitations.
  • 1-2g2j3 Life itself is iconic (imitation-copying)
  • 10-1b4a Learning is imitation and testing
• Think for yourself
  • 3-1a4b2b What is smart at one price is dumb at another
  • 3-1c3c4.1 It’s easy to push a really good idea to wretched excess
  • 3-1c3c4.2 “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect”
  • 3-1c3c4.3 “Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy only when others are fearful”
  • 10-2g1f3 We can only figure out what they know by what they do (‘performance’), because we can never directly study what people know (‘competence’). To assert that we can is a common error in thinking.
  • 10-2g3d1 Humans do stupid things because we can guess and create meanings. Our ability comes with a great cost of potentially doing very (infinitely) stupid things.