Words uttered by association feel shallow.

from Diary 2023-09-29 Words uttered by association feel shallow. - No need to stack pyramids. - Cases that do not require knowledge building - - a grounded pyramid and from there a lightly spread net.

• concept
  • Associative Networks
    • Connected to a number of things.
    • There are many sides.
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    • A person P, to whom a concept X is connected to many concepts, asks “What is X?” and then discards and shapes the surrounding elements according to the implicit “current context”.
    • However, person Q, whose concept X is connected to only one concept, C, quickly responds to the question, “What is X?” is quickly answered, “C!” is “C!
    • R, who X is not connected to anything, feels “intelligent” when he sees Q’s statement.
      • Because they quickly present “connections” we didn’t know existed.
    • On the other hand, from P’s point of view, Q appears “shallow”
      • P also knows the “X and C connection” because
      • P can see that Q is simply remembering the combination of X and C that he experienced in the past and saying it out loud without thinking about it.
      • It appears to be just a vector search engine, not a thinking one.

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