The probability that there is a secret mental trick that at one stroke will enable the human mind to solve complex problems better is practically zero. It is equally unlikely that our brains have some great cache of unusued potential. If such things existed, we would be using them. … Our brains function the way [...]
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Improving the Mind
Posted in Commonplace Book, tagged complexity, Dietrich Dörner, mind, planning on 2009-04-21 | Leave a Comment »
Knowledge
Posted in Commonplace Book, tagged complexity, knowledge, Robert Maynard Hutchins on 2009-04-02 | Leave a Comment »
Clearly facts are not knowledge. We do not have knowledge until we have organization. A possible world is an organization of ideas and facts. The facts are made intelligible only through the organization. A telephone book is knowledge only in the most limited sense. Such sense as it has it acquires through its alphabetical organization. [...]
Castles in the air
Posted in Commonplace Book, tagged complexity, Henry David Thoreau on 2009-03-24 | Leave a Comment »
… In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. [...]
Simplicity
Posted in Commonplace Book, tagged Alfred Jarry, complexity, Pataphysique on 2009-03-10 | Leave a Comment »
La simplicité n’a pas besoin d’être simple, mais du complexe resserré et synthétisé. – Alfred Jarry. «Linteau» 11 août 1894
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