
Ep 192: Where do ideas come from?
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The Importance of Science in the Creation of Knowledge
An idea is an abstraction that captures possibility. We can write down our ideas as incont paper or speak them, as I'm doing right now. But the idea is not identical to ink on paper, or for that matter, neuronal firings and so on. At the heart of my diagram here, it's inside the green circle there. That is the center of the bullseye. Maybe I should have colored it red. Okay, so I've labeled that part of the diagram with the letter A.
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