[b] 2023 Dec 04[m] 2024 Oct 16Understanding, Abstraction and Meaning
Upon seeing the facts, we want to understand them. We see many things, but we want to see only one, their order - the system.
- understanding
- seeing a causal ordering of units
- the system
- abstraction
- lumping facts together until a causal order is visible among the lumps
- the units within the system
- meaning
- mapping between units of two systems
- the connections between systems
When we see multiple systems, we want to see only one - we want the meaning of it all.
When we map systems - we create a meta system.
Turtles all the way down.