(shrug) We’re made of stuff, and for our purposes we care more about how that stuff interacts with itself and its environment than about, say, whether it’s the same stuff we were made out of yesterday. I’d quibble with “indivisible,” but otherwise I’d agree as far as it goes. I agree with you completely about it being useless, though. (Well, useless for purposes of understanding anything.)
No no no. Recognizing this stuff as BS is about the best anyone can do. These aren’t well defined abstractions, they’re ritual incantations. Discomfort with them, to the point of revulsion, is a sign of a healthy mind.
They’re giving you all these definitions. Is there anything you’re supposed to do with them, besides chant them back on a test?
I engage my fiction / roleplaying modules to deal with it. “Okay, we’re in a magical world where auras are real, people are energy patterns, and magic powers can heal them but only through technological interventions. How will my Level 2 Nurse character deal with Condition C? Let’s see what I have in my inventory...”
I just had a momentary fantasy about someone designing a video game like that as a teaching device for nursing school… Would be epic and I would never forget anything I learned.
(shrug) We’re made of stuff, and for our purposes we care more about how that stuff interacts with itself and its environment than about, say, whether it’s the same stuff we were made out of yesterday. I’d quibble with “indivisible,” but otherwise I’d agree as far as it goes. I agree with you completely about it being useless, though. (Well, useless for purposes of understanding anything.)
Ya. I don’t do well with abstract definitions.
No no no. Recognizing this stuff as BS is about the best anyone can do. These aren’t well defined abstractions, they’re ritual incantations. Discomfort with them, to the point of revulsion, is a sign of a healthy mind.
They’re giving you all these definitions. Is there anything you’re supposed to do with them, besides chant them back on a test?
I engage my fiction / roleplaying modules to deal with it. “Okay, we’re in a magical world where auras are real, people are energy patterns, and magic powers can heal them but only through technological interventions. How will my Level 2 Nurse character deal with Condition C? Let’s see what I have in my inventory...”
I just had a momentary fantasy about someone designing a video game like that as a teaching device for nursing school… Would be epic and I would never forget anything I learned.
I was thinking a similar thing, only it was visualizing the IRS web site as if it were Quirrell humming.