@Meaningness do you have a 140/280-char summary of Hutchins? :) I'm partial to Popper myself, but intrigued by an anthropological approach
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@Meaningness indeed - possibly the way@KevinSimler looked at things all along, but I had to be converted away from academic insanity
@sarahdoingthing @Meaningness No I'm still happily mired in academic insanity :). Feel free to ignore what follows, or object as you see fit
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@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 1. Knowledge is never certain. There's no Knowledge with a capital-K, only tentative/hopeful knowledge -
@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 2. Knowledge best understood as a process of making models better align with reality. -
@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 3. It is a physical process. Computers and other non-humans can (theoretically) generate knowledge too. -
@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 3... E.g. natural selection is a knowledge-generating process, encoding its knowledge in genomes. -
@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 4. The most important/broadest thing to say about this process is that it works by conjectures & falsification -
@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 4... In other words, the only way to get knowledge is to weed out non-knowledge, i.e., ideas that don't work -
@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 5. Whenever a system is "learning," this kind of trial&error must be occurring (at some level of description) -
@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 5... even if there are other ways to describe what's happening (e.g. phenomenologically). - 8 more replies
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