[The Prometheus Shot – EK02 :: Incompletness, Gödel, Polanyi, You! ]
This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series.
Category: Approximate Thinking
[The Prometheus Shot – EK01 :: Uncertainty, Bohr, Heisenberg ]
This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series.
[The Prometheus Shot – E013 :: Escher’s Vision – The Creativity of Integration & Transformation ]
This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series.
This post (podcast) is about a meta-example on Approximate Thinking and political discussions. Starting from a couple of examples, the power of identities and their role in understanding and obscuring (clarifying) thinking become evident.
Extreme Imagination and Creativity (as in Sci-Fi and Fantasy) can be practical. They are useful as inspiration, for education, and even as inputs into scientific and engineering processes.
Here are a few thoughts on that.
Do schools and universities really kill creativity?
Misaligned incentives, approximate thinking, and conflicting goals, can explain why the education system is perceived to be a creativity killer.
Abraham Lincoln was a great leader who did a lot for equality! or Was/Did he? Are you making some unseen assumptions based on the small part of the story you know?
This is a discussion about conflation, politics, and assumptions..
I wrote a blog post about a few interesting books, including one titled “How the World Thinks”. A reader objected, saying that thinking is done by people… So, does ‘the World’ think?
Incompleteness, biases, Identities and Culture
How does culture morph from a force for understanding and creativity, into a limiting force that serves to inspire laziness and embolden BIRGERS? Approximate Thinking and Identities have an interesting relationship. The below discussion is based on sections from “Fuzzy on the Dark Side”.