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Intuitions? If I may, what you are missing is the "organic machine". When the doctor hits your knee with the rubber head of that little mallet, he is testing your "patellar reflex".Reflex? it is a behavior tied to the organic machine.Object Oriented Software was created to move design father away from the machinery of the computer.In that context a given software language is either "close to the machine" or "far from the machine". If you wanted to, then you could appropriate its use for the "near - far" problem domain.Institutions, then, would be "Far" reflexes - abstractions that arise from given practices. Locomotion itself is rather "near" to the machine while dance or sport is farther from the machine than locomotion.. Vocalizing is rather near to the machine while language is father from the machine than Vocalizing.Theories cut into and chop up the continuum from simplicity to complexity within the organic machine. They create surrealisms in the brains of our children.One ubiquitous theory that damages the brains of our children is mathematics. We have forgotten that the numeral "2" is just an agreement.Like circles and lines, "2" does not actually exist.The are only points, "states" of "on", and states of "off" (0 and 1)Another theory that is becoming ubiquitous, is the theory of evolution by natural selection. It is wrong, and it too is damaging our children's intuition.

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richard silliker's avatar

 "a general learning mechanism"

This is called ambivalence and is defined as the experience of concurrent like and dislike.

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