Again, I suggest the evidence is exactly the opposite!
You assert that the art expert needs lots of mental space to fill with his
experiences of past real and fake statues. I suggest that he needs less and
less mental space the more expert he gets (and that this is typically what we
mean by
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:51 AM, ERIC P. CHARLES e...@psu.edu wrote:
To connect this with the other thread, and Rich's eloquent statement, the
transcendent person is LESS complicated than the average person. They have
let go of unnecessary complications. When you accept everyone and let
them
I think we are talking past each other. By mental space I'm talking about
storage; you seem to be talking about processing. Yes, the expert can
process faster, more efficiently. But that is because more mental space has
been dedicated to storing specific patterns and their combinations, and
Ted Carmichael wrote:
BTW - I wouldn't say the expert cannot explain why he has reached a
certain conclusion. Largely speaking, she can. A blind person can
tell you exactly what all the little raised dots and patterns mean.
I just mean that, as expertise is built up, this process of
More complex, less complicated. Knowledge or ontology becomes more
robust if it is independently *accessible*, whereas expertise is the
fluidity of understanding what knowledge is most *reachable*, given some
variety of current contexts. So its more topological (what's the
most or least
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:44 -0400, Ted Carmichael
teds...@gmail.com wrote:
BTW - I wouldn't say the expert cannot explain why he has reached
a certain conclusion. Largely speaking, she can. A blind person
can tell you exactly what all the little raised dots and patterns
mean. I just mean
