Cases that do not require knowledge building
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He wrote, "You can't put boxes in the air, they have to be stacked sequentially from the base."
There are some types of people who don't have this "need".
However, I recognized one person in the "case that cannot be established" that I am thinking of now after I turned 40, following the path of "Nada Junior High School → Nada High School → Kyoto University" with a high concentration of weirdos, and after a while, I think there was another one in the past, so I think there is no more than one in 10,000 people in the population ratio.
A few more, depending on where you put the boundaries.
They X can put boxes in the air.
We need to ask what exactly "ground" means. X is not in on this.
Those who have not participated are not that rare.
I recognize this as "someone who tries to put a box in the air and it falls down."
X is different from both.
Can put boxes in the air and still assemble things without falling off
Why is this possible?
Thinking of this in terms of the gravity and box metaphor seems impossible, so a different model is needed
Maybe "net."
https://gyazo.com/5f356a7c2eeac39ff353e604a1126dab
In "Knowledge, Capitalism and the Technologist Condition," which I wrote in 2012, I used the metaphor of a net instead of the metaphor of stacking boxes
The "stacking of boxes" is a metaphor for "gravity" and "the box below is the support."
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Not connected to other things, connected to one thing, or connected to several things, the latter being more reliable.
If you can build a body of knowledge that is interconnected, there is not much difference between doing something that is conventionally considered "basic" and something that is not.
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The psychological cost to many people of doing things the "right way" when the adults, teachers, and classmates closest to them believe that they should do things the way they are shown on the left is high.
Perhaps the lower cost of sharing information via the Internet has had an impact.
https://gyazo.com/475aba19b0cb26ac506280501d297598
Before the Internet, information sharing through paper books became less and less specialized.
This is because specialized content is less profitable for publishers from a business standpoint.
It was necessary to follow one of the few footholds in this era
It usually became something to be traced in order from the bottom up.
The Internet has lowered the cost of information sharing, allowing countless pieces of information to be shared.
Countless footholds have been created, making it possible to explore as one's curiosity dictates.
It is now possible to create a "densely connected knowledge network" even when learning in a way that is not on the "rails of existing learning methods".
https://gyazo.com/f078e18ddf4cfadb5a2acf044d29d97a
Mr. B certainly doesn't know X, which is a fundamental part of Mr. A's knowledge.
But since Mr. A has knowledge that Mr. B does not have, knowledge trade is established. From A's perspective, X is commodity knowledge, so "I'll give you this stuff if you want it, but I think what you have is worth far more, don't you?" (i.e., "I think what you have is worth much more than what I have") Well, there are those who will and those who won't and will say, "You don't know this stuff.
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By demonstrating value as a member of this "human network of knowledge exchange," they are acquiring another kind of shared belief after the fact In other words, there is a conflict between "the worldview created by education over the past few decades" and "the worldview created by practice since the Internet".
That makes me think the latter is the better stuff.
Loose association
Conversely, by being on the production side, you're acquiring quality knowledge.
At first, I thought that this might be knowledge of the foundation, but as I thought about it, I changed my mind, saying that the idea that the foundation is necessary in the first place is wrong, and that what we think is the foundation is just a shared belief. ---
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