How do we understand things?

The process of understanding and creativity is to go from specific to general to specific - concrete to abstract to concrete. Think of Darwin theorizing evolution - he observed the specifics e.g. sparrows then he abstracted the pattern of evolution then he applied this to other species. Newton observed an apple fall then mapped this to other phenomena.

Questions - What patterns of nature can we map to other things?

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4A1A. The mind is a pattern recognition machine.

4A1B. The mind’s default mode (DMN) operates by “scanning and landing”.