> You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while, there will be a hit, and people will say, ‘How did he do it? He must be a [[genius]]!” --[[Feynman]] - [[The Parable of the Tribes]], aka the problem of power - continuous undistracted non-meditation ([[Dzogchen]]) ## themes - [[nonduality]] - [[nonlinear narrative]] - [[developmental psychology]] %% what is the most minimal [[cognitive architecture]]? what's needed to bootstrap the capacity to navigate both conceptual thought and managing the needs of an embodied agent? perhaps it's got a flavor of Taoist [[dialectical monism]] aka iterated perception of small differences? perhaps there's no clean boundary between intelligence and non-intelligence? %%