I appreciated the Foolishness vs Ignorance distinction he drew up in Episode 1.
“Foolishness is lack of wisdom, Ignorance is lack of knowledge” sounds initially trite. But when he drills a little further into it, it became clear that his use of “Foolishness” is trying to gesture at premature pattern-identification and pattern-fixation, with a failure to notice alternative patterns.
“Premature reification” is what I’ve heard Ozzie call something similar, and that’s the handle I most often use for it.
There are probably some types of error that a child wouldn’t make, but an adult would, because adults more readily project one of their pre-existing reifications.
...but also, you need a reification to build things or coordinate. They’re not a thing you want to stop doing, they’re a thing you want to learn to monitor, manage, and question sometimes.
It is good to have some tools to dislodge or rewrite reifications which don’t actually apply. (And this seems to be what he sees as a selling-point of altered states.)
I appreciated the Foolishness vs Ignorance distinction he drew up in Episode 1.
“Foolishness is lack of wisdom, Ignorance is lack of knowledge” sounds initially trite. But when he drills a little further into it, it became clear that his use of “Foolishness” is trying to gesture at premature pattern-identification and pattern-fixation, with a failure to notice alternative patterns.
“Premature reification” is what I’ve heard Ozzie call something similar, and that’s the handle I most often use for it.
There are probably some types of error that a child wouldn’t make, but an adult would, because adults more readily project one of their pre-existing reifications.
...but also, you need a reification to build things or coordinate. They’re not a thing you want to stop doing, they’re a thing you want to learn to monitor, manage, and question sometimes.
It is good to have some tools to dislodge or rewrite reifications which don’t actually apply. (And this seems to be what he sees as a selling-point of altered states.)