Meanwhile, if you want to think it through for yourself, the general question is: where the hell do humans get all their bits-of-search from?
Cultural accumulation and google, but that’s mimicking someone who’s already figured it out. How about the person who first figured out eg crop growth? Could be scientific method, but also just random luck which then caught on.
Additionally, sometimes it’s just applying the same hammers to different nails or finding new nails, which means that there are general patterns (hammers) that can be applied to many different situations. There’s bits of information in both the patterns themselves and when to apply them, though I feel confused trying to connect these ideas here.
People specifically have inner simulations (ie you can imagine what it’d look like to drop a bowling ball off a building even if you’ve never seen it) from things you have lots of experience with is a way of applying different patterns to new situations.
Cultural accumulation and google, but that’s mimicking someone who’s already figured it out. How about the person who first figured out eg crop growth? Could be scientific method, but also just random luck which then caught on.
Additionally, sometimes it’s just applying the same hammers to different nails or finding new nails, which means that there are general patterns (hammers) that can be applied to many different situations. There’s bits of information in both the patterns themselves and when to apply them, though I feel confused trying to connect these ideas here.
People specifically have inner simulations (ie you can imagine what it’d look like to drop a bowling ball off a building even if you’ve never seen it) from things you have lots of experience with is a way of applying different patterns to new situations.