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Bill Spight wrote:
> Dear Chuck,
>
> > they have also found out
> > that even physicists who know all about motion continue to make what are
> > elementary mistakes in their field when presented with certain types of problems
> > that involve intuitive physics. The same for logicians.
>
> Yes. It depends on the opportunities for learning. Book learning
> is not the same as experiential learning. The ace quarterback who
> nails a pass has gone beyond intuitive physics in ways that many
> practicing physicists have not. They might be able, with some
> effort, to solve the differential equations involved in throwing
> a good pass, without being able to execute that knowledge
> themselves.
>
I'm not sure this is relevant to what I said. In my examples, all of it is book
learning. I would venture to say that book learning is ALWAYS quite different from
experiential learning. It's always a shock to do something after reading and reasoning
about it.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
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