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Understanding As Connected Knowledge
- Understanding can be forming connections between new and existing knowledge via analogies and associations.
- This connected-information model helps but struggles when you lack initial grounding to bootstrap analogies.
Understanding As Flexible Action
- Understanding shows itself as flexible action across varied novel problems, not just rote solutions.
- Experts rely on many stored patterns to act flexibly rather than deeper step-by-step simulation.
Teaching Tread Water Example
- Scott describes trying to teach a friend to tread water to show action without explanation can feel empty.
- He uses this to argue that doing a skill doesn't always mean you can explain its principles.