Nodal Point of Thought2019-04-21

Notes on getting out of bed - methodic doubt - delving into - [Explain in your own words

• 「 one’s own words 」

  • Don’t look outside the box for the right answer.

• Verification of “Whether or not you can explain”

• Nodal Point of Thought 20190419

• I think the first thing to do is to break free from adherence is to have methodic doubt.

• What does “methodical skepticism” look like in the case of

• Doubt anything that gives room for doubt.

• Methodology for elaborating thoughts

• Methodology, but often only teaches Descartes’ final idea “I think, therefore I am” as a result of his use of it, in a descent way.

  • Typical “[Taking the top of the pyramid is not what I expected.
  • Memorizing and humming “Cogito Ergo Sm.” or something like that doesn’t make you smarter.

• The “problem you tried to solve,” the “method you used to solve the problem,” and the “answer someone gave you” should be considered separately.

  • I think, therefore I am” is just Descartes’ answer. - Copying answers is futile.
  • Descartes’ “problem to solve” in the first place was “to find the right one for sure.”
    • In many cases, we’re not trying to solve this problem.
  • Descartes, a smart man, produced knowledge that is still mentioned in textbooks today, more than 300 years later, and his methodology is “methodical skepticism”!
    • The practical value of learning and utilizing this methodology Philosophy as a practical science would be

• Whether you can explain words in your own words - People who memorize the whole thing can’t dig in.

  • The key is “in your own words.”

• Picture of a monkey throwing boxes at random and waiting to reach a banana by accident, and a human being who can efficiently search for solutions by piling them up with the intention of making them higher.

  • Real monkeys are smarter than that. The idea that if you make random attempts you will eventually find the right answer is less than ape.

  • Evolution of technology is non-Darwinian

    • Random is the worst methodology

  • Better to use it than to do nothing, but something that should be moved to other methods as soon as possible.

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