“Experience has taught me, and must have taught you, that the most trivial, commonplace and seemingly irrelevant facts have a way of suddenly assuming a crucial importance by connecting, explaining or filling in the detail of later discoveries.” – Dr. Thorndyke
Performance is important, but you have to be able to explain what sustains that performance—you’d have to know both micro and macro since reality is one.
Related:
- 1-2g2r0 The Turing principle implies 梵我一如
- 3-1a The reality doesn’t have categories, there are only problems to be solved. Be problem-project-oriented. ‘Academic subjects’ are mere social constructs.
Related:
- 1-1a4c1 Emergence is another beginning of infinity. Knowledge is based on and consists of emergent phenomena.
- 1-1a4c2 The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
- 2-1a1a4a ‘Probabilistic thinking’ - Do not assume miracles!
- 2-1c2b Forced vertical integration made Tesla intimately familiar with the complex supply chain required to build a car. Good counter-argument to outsourcing everything.
- 3-1a4 Explanatory means it will span across ‘boundaries’
- 4-1d0 Look at the whole of conversations, including how things are being said as well as what’s not being said (e.g., taboos)
- 5-1b1a7 Technology’s ‘function’ consists of many parts, and you have to have an explanation for how each contributes to the whole (i.e., ‘vertically-integrated’)
- 10-2f1 Chomsky’s UG approach only looks at a subset (syntax) of a subset (language) of the whole (communication system — ‘the gestalt’). Syntax is only secondary to conversation.
- 11-3a Explanation of equity market requires knowing about other parts of market. Explanation of market in general requires knowing about non-market bits.
Contradictory?