@leo_guinan It's funny because personally I always thought the math was what was blocking people. Imo the piece missing is experiential, and that's why rigorous mysticism plays such a big part.
The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
The idea I’m promoting here is that it helps to see the world as math and not magic.