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The etymology of the word “imitate” is one of my favorites. During the time of Shakespeare, the word “ape” meant both “primate” and “imitate.” Perhaps the etymology indicates that knowledge of imitation is core to who we are.3

Knowledge is claimed rather than merely had . It requires the learner to become, in some sense, the cause of her belief – to be able to say not only that it is so, but why it must be so

Alfred North Whitehead was right that cognitive offloading is how we build civilization. We progress by increasing the number of things we can do without having to think about them.

But notice what we offload: arithmetic, memory, navigation—tasks. Judgment is different in kind. Offloading tasks can be civilizational progress. Offloading the capacity... See more

In 2017, three mathematicians from the University of Vermont published a paper titled Connecting Every Bit of Knowledge: The Structure of Wikipedia’s First Link Network . They tested this hypothesis over a dataset of 4.7 million English Wikipedia articles and found that philosophy was the page where the highest no. of articles ended.

95% of all... See more

Tools help us accomplish tasks; technologies reshape the very environments in which we think, work, and relate.

Judgment is not a task to be completed but a capacity to be a certain kind of knower