Decoupling is like pre-training, refining good features, potential capability. While contextualizing is like fine-tuning, assembling the features into prosaically aligned behaviors.
Thus “decoupling” might be a noncentral way of describing this natural role, it should instead be about receptiveness to learning all contexts, all points of view, all ideologies and paradigms. Decoupling is only a relevant move to describe this when there is a sticky contextualization that needs to be suppressed to enable exploration. But the new thing that’s arrived-at (when studying something in particular) is not in itself “decoupled”, it might well be as contextualizing as the original frame.
Decoupling is like pre-training, refining good features, potential capability. While contextualizing is like fine-tuning, assembling the features into prosaically aligned behaviors.
Thus “decoupling” might be a noncentral way of describing this natural role, it should instead be about receptiveness to learning all contexts, all points of view, all ideologies and paradigms. Decoupling is only a relevant move to describe this when there is a sticky contextualization that needs to be suppressed to enable exploration. But the new thing that’s arrived-at (when studying something in particular) is not in itself “decoupled”, it might well be as contextualizing as the original frame.