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082 - John Boyd, Part 1: Destruction and Creation

General Intellect Unit

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How Do We Generate Our Mental Concepts of Observed Reality?

The goal is to survive. Am, you're operating an environment that's hostile. Connet, he spells it out pretty explicitly. There are two ways in which we develop and manipulate our mental concepts of observed reality. We either start from the whole and break it down into parts, which is deduction and analysis, or we build it up into a whole, which is induction and synthesis. Youre breaking, breaking a large concept down smaller things, like your assembling lego parrots to make a different concept. Ye. And a just a sort of link back to the idea of abduction, that would actually be a third thing that would go in here, but, like, people weren't

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