@Meaningness I'm having trouble figuring what I should get out of this way of looking at things. It seems too obvious to me...
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Replying to @KevinSimler
@KevinSimler Hmm… There’s a sudden gestalt figure/ground flip when you “get” the ethno view, and everything suddenly seems different.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Meaningness
@KevinSimler Which phenomena look significant, what counts as an explanation, how to talk about communication—central vs marginal all invert1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
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@KevinSimler It’s a bit hard to reconstruct the process, because for me it was 30 years ago. Suspect@sarahdoingthing flipped recently…2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Meaningness indeed - possibly the way@KevinSimler looked at things all along, but I had to be converted away from academic insanity1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness No I'm still happily mired in academic insanity :). Feel free to ignore what follows, or object as you see fit1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @KevinSimler
@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 1. Knowledge is never certain. There's no Knowledge with a capital-K, only tentative/hopeful knowledge1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 2. Knowledge best understood as a process of making models better align with reality.1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 3. It is a physical process. Computers and other non-humans can (theoretically) generate knowledge too.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 3... E.g. natural selection is a knowledge-generating process, encoding its knowledge in genomes.2 replies 3 retweets 6 likes
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing yikes, dense! good point that aboutness-extraction gets wonky because "partners have some shared and some competing goals"2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @KevinSimler
@KevinSimler haha sorry it was an early effort - should revisit!0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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