From the original quote I thought the problem being addressed wasn’t communication, but using a cached carving of reality despite new evidence. Something analogous to how seeing a movie sets images of a book’s characters and settings in one’s mind.
As for how I now think you intended it, “making do with unbearably clumsy, confusing and muddled metaphor is exactly what I have to learn in every case I don’t know the exact mathematical notation to formalize my thoughts,” I disagree to some extent, as conveying ideas has much to do with the flawed interpreters, and not just perfectly formalizing thoughts. See e.g. my misinterpretation above. ;-)
That’s a different problem, and a much harder one, although the specific apple tree case I’m surprised they didn’t figure out: “I don’t know, but I have a hunch it might be between 10 and 1000. ”
If I have the notation I can explain it to other somewhat rational people who also know that notation, and might be better at explaining things than me so that others can get the idea indirectly as well. If I don’t know the notation the idea is stuck in my head forever.
From the original quote I thought the problem being addressed wasn’t communication, but using a cached carving of reality despite new evidence. Something analogous to how seeing a movie sets images of a book’s characters and settings in one’s mind.
Yes, that’s the problem talking about in the OP. Then I said “I’m having exactly the opposite problem” in response to that OP.
Sorry, I misinterpreted your statement.
As for how I now think you intended it, “making do with unbearably clumsy, confusing and muddled metaphor is exactly what I have to learn in every case I don’t know the exact mathematical notation to formalize my thoughts,” I disagree to some extent, as conveying ideas has much to do with the flawed interpreters, and not just perfectly formalizing thoughts. See e.g. my misinterpretation above. ;-)
The sequence post on that is here.
That’s a different problem, and a much harder one, although the specific apple tree case I’m surprised they didn’t figure out: “I don’t know, but I have a hunch it might be between 10 and 1000. ”
If I have the notation I can explain it to other somewhat rational people who also know that notation, and might be better at explaining things than me so that others can get the idea indirectly as well. If I don’t know the notation the idea is stuck in my head forever.