Think Memory

like a clock without a craftsman - Alan Moore

you don't need to memorize
if you know how to think
"like a clock without a craftsman"
he said. . .
       (and i wondered)
"what indeed would it feel like, to invent my own math?"

Reviews

[KTizzle]

This makes me think of cooking! Recently, I have developed the habit of throwing things together and improvising as I go along, which is a cool growth on my part as I usually love the comfort of recopies. Over time, I have figured out intuitively and critically what ingredients might work well together, which in turn has helped me to create my own recipes I tend to talk about like a proud parent talks about their kids. I think this poem also speaks well to creating one's own path, one's own destiny or coming their own identity.

Kind regards,

Kianna

[Davidgeo]

I think that's a really good analogy on a couple different levels. There's a common assumption that our brain sizes didn't really start expanding until we learned out to cook our food. Cooking food releases more nutrients and makes it easier for our bodies to break down those nutrients. I also think becoming a good chef requires a person to also become an at least reasonably intuitive chemist leading to a refinement of complex thought. The whole thing seems to be self reinforcing to me. Anyway, thanks for the review and I'm glad you liked what I had to write.

[KTizzle]

I didn't know brain sizes expanding due to cooking food was a common assumption. Thanks for the information. How do you mean self reinforcing?

[Davidgeo]

Both the results and the process of obtaining those results are beneficial when it comes to cooking. You can say this about lots of things... like learning science and engineering, exercise, competition, hunting, etc., etc.. There is a saying in mathematics that goes - "you don't have to be good at math to get good at math". The very act of learning about math makes you better at it, and the more you learn the better you can get.