Polanyi's ideas are profound but often rather difficult to understand.
Some of his quotes:
"All knowing is personal, and all personal knowing is passionate."
"The act of knowing is an act of commitment."
🧵⏬ "All knowledge is rooted in tacit knowing. The explicit knowledge that we articulate is always grounded in our pre-existing tacit understanding of the world."
"The pursuit of knowledge is not a matter of acquiring information, but of understanding the world around us."
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Found a very interesting article on Downward Causation by Alicia Juarerro, discussing Polanyi's and Prigogine's views. 🧵 Polanyi argues that the higher level imposes boundary conditions that harness the lower level components to serve the higher level whole. However, he also claims that boundary conditions must be fixed by an external agency, not by the lower level itself.

My series "The Three Pillars of Reasoning, Parts I, II, III" is complete now



the links are here:
The three pillars of reasoning,
part I
part II
part III extendedbrain.substack.com/p/the-three-pi…
extendedbrain.substack.com/p/the-three-pi…
extendedbrain.substack.com/p/the-three-pi…

1/3 What is your favorite #metaphor for #PKMs? A library is structured and organized, and a garden suggests growth and living, these are the two most favorite metaphors.
But over time, I have come to view a PKM as a journey, traveling in the continuum of space and time of ideas 2/3 PKMs are streams of thought, paths with branchings (Luhmann's #Folgezettel).
Our thoughts can wander in all sorts of directions. We might start with one idea and then branch off into other related ideas. Or we might come back to an old idea and think about it in a new way.

1/4 This excellent guide provides an overview of how to best use AI in creative writing.
"The primary misconception is that its main use is to replace writing and writers."
every.to/chain-of-thoug… 2/4 "Like Mark Twain, the writers who are prepared to embrace “this newfangled writing machine” will find that if they can learn to work around its limitations, they can already do incredible things with"

Very inspiring chat featuring @soenke_ahrens , @gordonbrander , and @jerrymichalski
Below is my brief summary. Apologies for the inaccuracies and my biases. #Zettelkasten
🧵 Systems Theory/#Cybernetics: reducing external complexity so we can build up internal complexity.
Feedback loops everywhere in the process (iteration)🧵

Bloom's Taxonomy describes the stages of the #learning process of a concept. How do these stages correspond to changes in a #PKM (Personal Knowledge Management)?
🧵 The 1st stage is recall or root learning.
Eg the law of conservation of energy.
PKM: a single note, contents perhaps copy pasted from class or the internet
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