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Secondary 2 physics

My wrist is fixed.

What is it that makes people learn quickly or slowly? What is it that makes information so accessible sometimes, and so inaccessible in others? How can we improve human understanding and experience?

It's all in the interface.

Paragraphing is a form of interface, as is capitalization, punctuation, listing, bolding, italicizing. Language, in the written form is full of guides that tell us how to best read the material, how to best experience the material. All these techniques would be lost in braille form, and the text can rarely be conveyed with the same flavour. Phoenixes in the minds of those who have seen a Harry Potter book cover, or that of Dungeons and Dragons art, would be very different from the phoenix conjured up in the mind of the visually impaired. Simply, the interface is different. Information is lacking in the experience of the Visually impaired person.

Perhaps the failure to learn, is not about being unable to understand information, but the failure to recieve it in the first place. Examples are, people who can't determine emotions of a person from their facial expression, people who cannot determine mood from the tone of voice. What we need to do now, is to reinterpret the models we've held in our minds so far to bring understanding to those who cannot see.

Then again, the question is, can a person hold two models of the world in a single mind? Can a person absolutely believe in Christianity and Atheism at the same time?

posted by Downhere. @ 11:28 am