Last modified date: 2022-12-21 07:27 Commit: 6 #mind #knowledge #intelligence #philosophy #wisdom #rationality # Related - [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Curiosity]] - [[Education]] # Learning  >Learning implies the love of understanding and the love of doing a thing for itself. Learning is possible only when there is no coercion of any kind. And coercion takes many forms, does it not? There is coercion through influence, through attachment or threat, through persuasive encouragement, or subtle forms of reward. >~ [[Krishnamurti|Jiddu Krishnamurti]] %%Learning, brain, books, library%%  >I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? **All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower**. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts. >~ [[Feynman]] ![[Pasted image 20220924104344.png]] ![[Pasted image 20220924104352.png]] ![[Pasted image 20220924104358.png]] ![[Pasted image 20220924104407.png]] ![[Pasted image 20220924104416.png]] ## Compound Knowledge [[Compound Knowledge]] ## **Learning** in organic life In organic life, learning is usually split in two steps: - Nurture: what it learn during its life. - Nature: part of nurture is inherited to the offspring >Human nature is a product of culture, but culture is also a product of human nature, and both are the products of evolution. ~[[Matt Ridley]] Humans **learn** by analogy, we try to relate new information to the known ones. ## **Learning** in artificial life [[Computing/Intelligence/Machine Learning/Learning]] ## From machine **learning** to human **learning** Interestingly we teach machines to **learn** and then use the same technique to **learn** as humans. - https://www.remnote.io/pricing -> image occlusion is used in self supervised **learning**, in vision obviously, extracting supervision from the data itself - https://readwise.io -> let you hide a word in a sentence and you have to guess it later in time, it's basically what [[GPT3]] does for example. https://youtu.be/hx3U64IXFOY