“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name” (Confucius); “magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.” (LeGuin)
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OTOH: Feynman: "there is a diff between knowing a thing and knowing the name of a thing." But maybe "true name" computation is NP-hard
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Contra-Feynman, it's hard to communicate understanding without names. Having a name is half the understanding.
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. I'd reconcile with: "true name" would actually be a compressed theory of the thing. Like naming a nuke E=mc^2

