Just a small thought.
So, how do we understand or Learn a new idea. Basically, we have a set of fundamental ideas installed in our mind since the beginning of our learning process. The most basic I can think right now is numbers and alphabets and visual aids used for understanding, there is a deeper level of logic and reasoning that I shall not think about right now in order to not clutter up my neural connections!
So everything dissolves down to or is built from our basic predefined notions that are introduced to us through our learning. As we are exposed to a new concept or an idea, we would join two or more of our fundamentals in maybe a 'complex' (not necessarily) manner to form a new pattern of understanding. So as we are taught derived units are taken from a set of fundamental units!
So, what happens for example, when one of the fundamental concepts is unknown to us? Taking things in an algorithmic sense there would be a decision:
Option 1. Go back and build the fundamental.
Option 2. Derive the fundamental from its derived learning (if known)...which is kinda a paradox since we're going the other way around.
Now, Option 1 is the most reliable choice, but Option 2 is usually a choice in order to save time. Now Option 2 is risky, because it is the equivalent of 'assuming' a fundamental concept. But somehow it might be a new view point to look at something. And so after established our derived fundamental we would question its validity. Now this is the part which puts the 'fun' in fundamental... it mostly will lead to the actual fundamental or be somewhat close to it... or be an interesting but awkward theory which would probably sound like something out of a comic book.
But it would be a process that might lead to new concepts or a discovery. Now as we see in history, that’s how fundamentals are based. By observing a complex derived thing, breaking it down to fundamentals... and giving a cool name or probably your own name to a theory that you can explain!!
Reverse engineering?? hmmmm??
But still that doesn't make Option 1 obsolete in any way, it’s a classic right? And that's what my friend Tonmoy would be thinking... since he uses an awkward amalgamation of Options 1 and 2 which a lot of people may be at a loss for comprehension!
Now reading this a time after reading it, it looks like a bunch or rand words... much like William Burroughs Cut up technique [link].
This post is dedicated to the "Concept-Man" and today’s Birthday Boy and a best friend, Tonmoy!!
2 comments:
all gone bouncer...what was the concept????..any example to learn ur theory????
Very interesting insight but isnt this too much energy spent on a very simple concept of process of learning. Its basic human tendency to find the easy way out. Even if you try hard you cannot avoid it. You think you would like to avoid it but it comes as a natural process that cannot be stopped. the point is being innovative in the process of this state of awareness and harnessing it to your benefit.
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