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> Complex things requires easy to use systems that reflect that complexity...how do we build these methods of communication and understanding?

We've had the wetware for understanding complex systems for thousands of years. We added symbolics for communicating complex things later.

Nowadays, many people weak in symbolics are excellent in understanding, and many people expert in symbolics are novice in understanding.

I am not sure whether we are missing a symbolic form that is closer aligned to understanding, or whether we've simply overvalued symbolics at the expense of understanding.




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