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- Descartes' brief rules for the direction of the mind [1] is pertinent here, as it articulates beautifully what it means to do "thinking" and how that relates to "memory".
Concepts have to be "internalized" into intuition for much of our thinking, and if they are externalized, we become a meme-copy machine as opposed to a thinking machine.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_the_Direction_of_the...
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard W. Hamming. This has chapters on a variety of science, engineering, and math topics, and each one has what I found to be pretty good insights and views on them.
The Rules for the Dance by Mary Oliver. I already knew I liked certain kinds of poetry, but never really understood why. This book breaks down metrical poetry and explains how it works.
The Rules for the Direction of the Mind by Descartes, aka the regulae.
- Descartes' Regulae (Rules for the Direction of the Mind). There are online copies, but all the ones I have found are incomplete. The best one is in John Cottingham's The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_the_Direction_of_the...
- I will have to disagree with the author on specifics (but agree on the broad premise)
it is not what the foundational knowledge "is" - but "how" the foundational knowledge is "unpacked" by each person from the first principles.
this was articulated by Descartes in "Rules for the direction of the mind" which remains sadly unread and forgotten.
the difference between the 2 approaches is that the author's approach does not clearly delineate what is meant by "learning". In fact, it could even encourage rote-learning of the foundational material. Descartes outlines an alternative.
An interesting anecdote about Descartes is that he "unlearnt" everything he knew early in life, and attempted to "rebuild" his knowledge. Few of us have the luxury to do that.
link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_the_Direction_of_the...
- I think some of that stuff is there, it's just buried. For instance, the first thing I thought of was Descartes, and his Rules for the Direction of the Mind, so I checked: it is listed [1], but there seems to be no discussion of it, and that page is the only mention of Descartes.
[1] on this page: http://www.ludism.org/mentat/BrainBooks
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