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So is "the ladder of abstraction" an anti-intellectual framework, because abstraction goes upward? worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstra
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Possibly. Bret Victor thinks interesting thoughts, but doesn’t seem to actually enjoy thinking.
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My impression is thinking is the *only* thing he enjoys! Your #68 made me think of him. ("The intellectual experiences genuine delight in seeing computers think thoughts they cannot think.") I don't know anyone as excited about computing as "media for thinking the unthinkable."
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Possibly, I don’t follow his work closely 🙂
My up/down classifier is not exact
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Depth metaphor felt too 2-D. I prefer a gordian knot or strange loops characterization which preserves inwardedness while adding dimensionality which is core feature of intellectualizing.
Anti-intellectuals tend to prefer flatness.
Some kiki / bouba at play here too methinks.
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Intellectualizing still mostly a hero's journey though. Diving into depths mostly imagined as a race to solitary endeavors which I find not fun.
Shiver thinking about Schopenhauer's solitude.
Wonder what equivalent boat stories for intellectualizing are?
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It has to be. Nobody can follow you into your own head. Until we get to neural lace BCI of course
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After reading mind meld romance of Kahneman and Tversky, I think there are cognitive kindred pairings that outperform their individual capacities.
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Yes and this is a theme of Bret Victor who I mentioned earlier. He claims that humane thought is communal and embodied. (See dynamicland.org and Ctrl+F for "50-year project.")
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