What about bad habits? Bev
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 8:10 AM, John F Sowa <s...@bestweb.net> wrote: > On 8/16/2017 6:29 PM, sb wrote: > > when something becomes a habit we (can) forget existing doubts, >> premisses or rare results - the stock of knowledge shrinks. >> > > No. I would say that it becomes better organized. Whitehead said > that intellectual progress can be measured by the amount of reasoning > we can do without thinking about it. Whitehead was talking about > mathematics. But just compare a child who is learning to play the > piano and professional musicians who have all the patterns at their > fingertips (actually, in their cerebellum instead of the cerebrum). > > John > > > > >
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