In "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", Robert Pirsig calls this distinction the "romantic" vs. the "classical" mind and explores it in some detail. Classical minds tend to build a functional model of things they interact with, romantic minds a descriptive and normative.
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Yes, and IMHO it was necessary to instantiate the digital world...I loved the descriptions in Turing's Cathedral of the various hacks to ancient cars and houses made by Julian Bigelow, one of the key minds in the creation of the IAS computer.
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Feynman was quite handy, and used visual intuitions for mathpic.twitter.com/5AmZbaL1zL
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From “Surely you’re Joking”
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Heinz von Foerster (Cyberneticist) used the term "trivial" instead of "handy". If you can read German, I can recommend readinghttps://splogz.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/heinz-von-foerster-eine-theorie-von-lernen-und-wissen/ …
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