[The Prometheus Shot – EK04 :: Beauty ]
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Category: Fuzzy Thinking
In a noisy world drowning in information [and indifference], how we engage with books – and why we choose to read or skip them – matters more than ever. The Knowledge & Books mini-series of EtherCast is a thoughtful exploration of the practice, psychology, and meaning of reading, asking about what we read, why, how, and to what end.
[The Prometheus Shot – EK03 :: Approximate Thinking ]
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK02 :: Incompletness, Gödel, Polanyi, You! ]
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK01 :: Uncertainty, Bohr, Heisenberg ]
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[The Prometheus Shot – E013 :: Escher’s Vision – The Creativity of Integration & Transformation ]
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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..