Weird how much of what's taught formally about physical phenomena is reduced purely to the symbolic layer: e.g. memorize the name of the thing x that does y, memorize the name of phenomenon y, label x on the same vastly oversimplified line drawing you saw in the book.
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“The answer is a little unfortunate, because what they were trying to do is teach a definition of what is energy. But nothing whatever is learned.” The understanding of *definition* of a a word works on the realm of communication btw people as well as the *borders* of a concept
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What do you mean by "working on the realm of communication between people" and "borders of a concept" here? This is going meta lol
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"Symbols are useful" & "symbols are useful even when you don't know what they mean" are two different claims. The latter is sometimes true, but often not, and they risk putting you in a position where you've forgotten what you don't know
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