A significant part of education is teaching you to see categories where you previously saw a spectrum. You get enlightened, but also develop blind spots where the categories meet.
Weird... I feel enlightened every time I unlearn a category and see the underlying spectrum
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Maybe enlightenment is the synthesis of the category and spectrum lenses
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Yeah you need to learn words for fixed categories to bootstrap understanding. But at some they hold you back, so you have to shed them
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Agreed, I think it goes the other way - we use categories and maps to explain reality, then through experience we see the spectrum.
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Agree. I am confused by this tweet. Of course, intimate knowledge of a subject is essential, but should also be considered as part of a whole.
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