Bernard Andrews
@bernardandrews.bsky.social
Reposted by Bernard Andrews
The house paradox: houses are both costly and valued
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The house paradox: houses are both costly and valued
The house paradox: houses are both costly and valued
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The house paradox: houses are both costly and valued
It's a great album!
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
It's a great album!
But it's only surprising for people who have bought the nonsense information-processing framework. Otherwise, there's nothing surprising or counterintuitive about it at all. It's just practice. Of course practicing the thing you want to get good at is more effective than practicing something else.
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
But it's only surprising for people who have bought the nonsense information-processing framework. Otherwise, there's nothing surprising or counterintuitive about it at all. It's just practice. Of course practicing the thing you want to get good at is more effective than practicing something else.
I don't think it's an entirely impractical and abstract question. The kind of knowledge we're trying to acquire determines how we go about acquiring it. If someone were once enlightened but are no longer, they wouldn't regain their previous state simply by being reminded of what they once thought.
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I don't think it's an entirely impractical and abstract question. The kind of knowledge we're trying to acquire determines how we go about acquiring it. If someone were once enlightened but are no longer, they wouldn't regain their previous state simply by being reminded of what they once thought.
Ha well there's a good example. Is enlightenment something we remember, forget, can remind oneself of etc. or gain and lose, and regain? Is it more like a poem or fitness?
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Ha well there's a good example. Is enlightenment something we remember, forget, can remind oneself of etc. or gain and lose, and regain? Is it more like a poem or fitness?
Yes, exactly. And I'm sure Christian knows that. But tell that to people who think that "retrieval isn't just part of learning, it *is* learning".
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Yes, exactly. And I'm sure Christian knows that. But tell that to people who think that "retrieval isn't just part of learning, it *is* learning".
Over on substack, George Lilley said that you once wrote, 'we can't retrieval practice our way to enlightenment' or something. What a great line!
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Over on substack, George Lilley said that you once wrote, 'we can't retrieval practice our way to enlightenment' or something. What a great line!
No lines in that metaphor though!
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
No lines in that metaphor though!
Haha I do find it a bit confusing. I quite like the metaphor of a mosaic - an idea is the position in a mosaic, which only has sense relative to all the other positions, and words/gestures are like the stones. A space can be filled with a variety of stones (but not any).
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Haha I do find it a bit confusing. I quite like the metaphor of a mosaic - an idea is the position in a mosaic, which only has sense relative to all the other positions, and words/gestures are like the stones. A space can be filled with a variety of stones (but not any).
Oh absolutely. It depends what we think the 'birds' are. If they're propositions, then the whole thing is a mess, but if the objects are ideas (rather than words) I think you're absolutely right.
We often see those dot and line diagrams, but it's never clear what the dots and lines represent.
We often see those dot and line diagrams, but it's never clear what the dots and lines represent.
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Oh absolutely. It depends what we think the 'birds' are. If they're propositions, then the whole thing is a mess, but if the objects are ideas (rather than words) I think you're absolutely right.
We often see those dot and line diagrams, but it's never clear what the dots and lines represent.
We often see those dot and line diagrams, but it's never clear what the dots and lines represent.
It's only the public agreement in the application of techniques that solves these problems.
The 'catching the birds' bit, or in fact any reference to 'retrieval' or any inner process is otiose. It's just practice.
The 'catching the birds' bit, or in fact any reference to 'retrieval' or any inner process is otiose. It's just practice.
November 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
It's only the public agreement in the application of techniques that solves these problems.
The 'catching the birds' bit, or in fact any reference to 'retrieval' or any inner process is otiose. It's just practice.
The 'catching the birds' bit, or in fact any reference to 'retrieval' or any inner process is otiose. It's just practice.
Your (and @cmooreanderson.bsky.social's) point about enactment is, I think, half right, because the solution is that learning the answers to questions is learning *to do* something. But the other key part is that answering a question/following a rule is essentially a *public* practice.
November 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Your (and @cmooreanderson.bsky.social's) point about enactment is, I think, half right, because the solution is that learning the answers to questions is learning *to do* something. But the other key part is that answering a question/following a rule is essentially a *public* practice.