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Ep. 27 - Problem Formulation

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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How to Solve a Problem in Life

The problem solving method is any method for finding the sequence of transformations that will take you from the initial state into the goal state while obeying the path constraints. Solving this is how you acquire knowledge. Keith Holdio gave a very famous example of this. Psychologist who was instrumental in doing important work on the psychology of problem solving. Let's do a concrete example of this and then it's a great example because it brings up machines that we have today.

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