By the mind one understands. By an excess of the same mind, one misunderstands. How does one escape the tendency to be unsteadied by the extreme of a habit? For as is one’s occupation, so one becomes proficient. The great discovery since the developments of the sciences has been the tendency toward the mind, even […]
Try as one may otherwise, the human mind by necessity needs to have some basic concepts about the world around us. The concepts we have could be, should be, of a more general nature. Upon these basic concepts, details are added through observations, experiences, training, and learning. If the basic concept is correct, they will […]
A fascination with specifics and analyzing details has become an obsession and considered proof of intelligent mind. It is considered the sign of a civilized, sophisticated person to find and extract what is of interest from a whole mass of information. Machines, no doubt, are better than humans in the cold extraction of a “fact […]