Weird how much of what's taught formally about physical phenomena is reduced purely to the symbolic layer: e.g. memorize the name of the thing x that does y, memorize the name of phenomenon y, label x on the same vastly oversimplified line drawing you saw in the book.
— Mason 💦👏 + 😷 + 🏃♂️✂️ (@webdevMason) May 9, 2020
And it doesn’t get any better. There are loads of people who can solve the equations for physical phenomena but have no real understanding of how any of it actually works. A former close friend of mine was this way. He could solve very complex equations about all sorts of things but had no ability at all to reason about any of it outside this framework. He looked like a genius inside this arena, but outside of it he was pretty much a dunce.
This is typical, I’ve found.