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Published: 2013-08-09
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEiSloE1r-A
in one part of an ancient dialogue called me no %HESITATION Plato is concerned with the idea of where does your knowledge come from where is it and in this particular dialogue what Plato side do what's called funds old friend Socrates and in the form of a conversation with a slave boy try to work through this idea of how knowledge house yeah I wasn't I wasn't there
and I don't speak a lot agreed but I think the conversation went something like this okay playboy do you know anything about formal mathematics no I'm just a slave you'll do and then Socrates decided to ask questions trying to pull out successfully from the slave boy the fact that he was able to prove pretty rigorous Bob pretty rigorous about formula about the areas seem like much
one was all done Socrates turns to me no one says I I told you so he had it in him all along all he needed was to have this knowledge re awakened that was in his soul is is one but a call to arms in his soul all along what's pretty deep stuff that somehow all the knowledge that we're going to be able to obtain right
there now we need to have is the questions asked so let's talk a couple of stories %HESITATION having to do with my background with the same sort of a concept is there something that's in you that needs to be really while I was in fifth grade sister Vincentian parents house for us in that house had to do with finding as many ways that you could represent
the number hundred Allstate was a hundred I'm quite sure and what you would do is find a way like whoa twenty times one time spike fantastic what you do is you write it on a strip of paper and if you find another way %HESITATION ninety seven plus three wonderful you put down trip a paper the former check that you would put on on the Christmas tree
and it was hard to take these wakes inform them together I did this for a little while but my brain being what my brain decided I don't know this debate so instead of forming link at such a I gave it a half of it now what I was doing at the time I thought was just having a little bit more fun with something that was fifth
grade math class what I didn't know I was going was making something called a mobile script now I don't know about your experience with phobias strips that have any of the time it all I knew was the other stuff was born for like to do for a minute here is %HESITATION literally and figuratively poke a hole in something that Plato was saying because you may or
may not have any of this knowledge inside the I'm not really sure but when you think about a movie extra is that if you cut it all the way around if there wait for it alright now interesting though cut all the way through remains in one piece %HESITATION is a lot more to know about a movie extra but unlike this lucky slave boy am I gonna
ask you too many questions about I say to you got a little bit of exploring if you consider what might happen if he twisted it twice then put them together consider what would happen if you didn't cut it down the middle so that I got a little bit older and start forgetting about Moby district with again I don't know what they work started reading a little
bit and now in the recreational mathematics section of the library fought a bit more about movie scripts both trust me that I have many more nerd story and found some art by Asher that incorporated Moby strips but I kind of put them aside because again there were other other nerdy things to do dungeons and dragons was calling me at the time uncleanness but there's a second
experience going on with my high school days yeah I guess I should preface this part of the conversation I think but I was bored I like to do probably but I have a goal to do with little stuff like that I have to work through this neutral you might be saying one of two things what's the big deal for as it unravels you might be finding
something aesthetically please I know I why couldn't stop I mean what I found was that it was like falling down the rabbit hole with Alice my my sort of went out okay come to find out later in college I was handed a %HESITATION issue of college mathematics magazine on the cover of college mathematics magazine was was my total you've got to be kidding me site I've
been doing something that other mathematicians found relevant perhaps exciting little mathematically knowing join the full of the article but I got to talking with the professors trying to learn a little bit more about just about things in general I hope we can come out of my my soul mathematical mind in it was mathematicians about stuff going on but here's what I found out that doodle is
actually a very simple function it's called an archimedean spiral I urge you to go take a look at what this might mean let me show you basically what the concept that if you were to connect the dots very small incremental pattern this fund what part what you might call aspire if however you decide not to connect the dots in a very close pattern well again I
say Hoss but I could understand it a little bit more so without behind me I got to thinking a little bit more about but Plato was that now where where is this where is this really how I guess it was me but I'm not holding sold on the fact that whatever knowledge you're going to be obtaining it's just sitting in there because the questions just might
not be a I think one of the roles that we have I'm learning that is the key to a little bit more is that you've got to have the Congress what you need is to be exposed to a lot of ideas so you can harness what's in there get out a little bit more the questions are really gonna always be and yet with that said I'm
still tied to the idea that we've each got something set in and there we just don't know what it is they are waiting for that beauty and we meet me knowing something's I think what we need to do is take those those two worlds and I try to say okay as it's one or the other I guess if you're going to quote forest Gump you say
