Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by bbreier 1666 days ago
I really enjoy the chicken-and-egg-esque meta implications of this comment, that you are of the Type 1 persuasion and therefore find value in this reductive model of human thought. I instinctually grasp for nuance away from these two modes, which ironically seems to put me squarely in Type 2 (even though I often find value in reductive models). Trying to dig deeper into this just feels like zooming in on a fractal.
3 comments

The two outlooks can hardly be said to be mutually exclusive. You can absolutely cultivate both sides of yourself, learn to appreciate both logic and poetry. Doing so leaves you a much more well rounded person than either Spock or Bones.
Yup, the moment you squint hard enough it's turtles all the way down. And it's beautiful like that.
There is still some mysticism that exists embedded in a type 1 world. Nursing literature sometimes refers to nurses’ intuition, which is an indescribable feeling that something is wrong with a patient but you can’t quite describe what it is.

Otherwise, nursing is very much a type 1 world of models that describe how nurses interact with the world around them.