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Foundations of Knowing
Learning from Mistakes
The ‘Frog and Peach’ comedy routine features Dudley Moore interviewing an eccentric restaurant owner played by Peter Cook. Cook describes in detail a failed restaurant that only serve...
In Foundations of Knowing, Jul 25, 2022
Trial & Error vs Recipe
Problem-solving can be seen broadly as transitioning a situation from one state to another. This view covers a host of human endeavors. Most often the end state is considered a goal o...
In Foundations of Knowing, Jul 24, 2022
The Importance of Errors
People often believe if errors and mistakes didn’t occur their lives would be better and the world would be a better place to live. Errors are important and their essential nature is ...
In Foundations of Knowing, Jul 06, 2022
What is Knowledge and does it matter?
Some think knowledge is a belief which is always true. They might say, “I know the sun will come up tomorrow.” But, such a statement would prove false in the aftermath of a supernova....
In Foundations of Knowing, Jul 03, 2022
Welcome to Insights on Knowing
Big shifts often begin with a focused idea. Insights on Knowing is our collection of short stories, sharp observations, and practical wisdom designed to make the unseen mechanics of w...
In Foundations of Knowing, Jul 01, 2022
Experience and Understanding
Beyond Fundamentalism
Religious conservatives have given fundamentalism a bad reputation. “Epistemology of Descartes is known as Fundamentalism. In his book of Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes tr...
In Experience and Understanding, Aug 05, 2022
How Math Works
Math stands alone in the discussions of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Other fields of endeavor rely upon mathematics to create models of theories and work ...
In Experience and Understanding, Jul 19, 2022
Experience of Reality
In the movie The Matrix (1999) the scene What is Real? has the main character named Neo connected to a computer simulation with a terminal jack in the back of his head. Once in the si...
In Experience and Understanding, Jul 17, 2022
Feelings
Feelings are very important. Emotional Intelligence (EI) has identified five characteristics as follows:
In Experience and Understanding, Jul 09, 2022
Applied Insights
Affordable Broadband Access for All
We produced a paper with recommendations for creating affordable fiber opticbroadband access. Below is the executive summary, and here is the full paper
In Applied Insights, Aug 04, 2022