A Stream of Consciousness

  • the elimination of jargon is a tough problem in education and inferential bridging

  • the semantic/conceptual mapping is the easiest way to cross bridges

  • each concept/idea/inference that can be referred to and then “headnodded” at each other for confirmation of understanding

  • saves a couple of sentences of explanation that could have been shorthanded with a word (often jargon)

  • the issue with the “feynman idea” of explaining things so that a child can understand something

  • is that there’s often a tradeoff of whether to continue to go further beyond the inferential frontier

  • while also bridging inferential tethers to those closer to the edge of the frontier, so there’s some semantical representations that can form connective tissue

  • as a “testbed” for
    “knowing the words” to explain what is learned beyond the frontier to a wider and wider group of people

  • one way to resolve this is via a group of experts (professors, other PhDs, other investors, other founders, other scientists)

  • that is the most common methodology

  • another methodology is via consilience and treating various fields pointing to the same findings as an empirical basis for evidence

  • the advantage here is being able to go further alone

  • and then trace back with vertical experts across various fields

  • with this it’s possible to create “weighting of evidence” across fields across multiple frontier folks

  • this reduces the burden of evidence for a single person or single group to confirm learnings/discoveries via wayfinding (referred in previous posts as discursive thought or research or venture backed startup)

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