Musings on tools for thought

Posted by BrainTool
May 11, 2022 at 04:47 PM

Excellent pointer. I’ve been catching up on the ‘Tools for Thought Rock’ series and Maggie does a presentation on this idea, see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6uhvFGPUE0

While her examples are great, IMO they are all instances of a more fundamental concept - memes. Not (necessarily) in their current incarnation ala Reddit posts, but in the original self replicating gene-analogous mental constructs proposed by Dawkins and described in The Meme Machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meme_Machine). With maps for example the meme is that we can represent physical topology with a scaled down 2 dimensional model and thus enhance our ability to reason about spaces. Maybe I need to do a write up on ‘Memes - the original tools for thought’.

That said, I too love working with a nice pen on paper!