Kevin Simler

@KevinSimler Hmm… There’s a sudden gestalt figure/ground flip when you “get” the ethno view, and everything suddenly seems different.

@KevinSimler Which phenomena look significant, what counts as an explanation, how to talk about communication—central vs marginal all invert

@KevinSimler It’s a bit hard to reconstruct the process, because for me it was 30 years ago. Suspect @sarahdoingthing flipped recently…

@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

@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.