> I’ll feel I can sketch the basic claims, paint the surface; but when someone asks a basic probing question, the edifice instantly collapses. Sometimes it’s a memory issue: I simply can’t recall the relevant details.
The people writing these kinds of books hopefully spend a significant amount of time researching (reading), thinking and writing about the topic at hand. Reading a book about that topic once cannot by proxy give the reader an equally deep understanding of the subject matter.
> Reading Quantum Country means reading a few minutes of text, then quickly testing your memory about everything you’ve just read, then reading for a few more minutes, or perhaps scrolling back to reread certain details, and so on.
The author seems to, at least to some degree, equate knowledge with memorisation. I find this to be an limited perspective, since knowledge is also about connecting and balancing diverging information on the same topic, as well as putting it in relation to other topics.
This point is actually talked about a few paragraphs earlier while discussing the hypertext format. An analog approach to this is the Zettelkasten[0] method.
It seems to me, that knowledge is the continuous engagement with a topic through reading, thought and writing. What the author is calling for as "new mediums" is nothing more than the technological encoding of certain practices of organising one's mind.
The people writing these kinds of books hopefully spend a significant amount of time researching (reading), thinking and writing about the topic at hand. Reading a book about that topic once cannot by proxy give the reader an equally deep understanding of the subject matter.
> Reading Quantum Country means reading a few minutes of text, then quickly testing your memory about everything you’ve just read, then reading for a few more minutes, or perhaps scrolling back to reread certain details, and so on.
The author seems to, at least to some degree, equate knowledge with memorisation. I find this to be an limited perspective, since knowledge is also about connecting and balancing diverging information on the same topic, as well as putting it in relation to other topics. This point is actually talked about a few paragraphs earlier while discussing the hypertext format. An analog approach to this is the Zettelkasten[0] method.
It seems to me, that knowledge is the continuous engagement with a topic through reading, thought and writing. What the author is calling for as "new mediums" is nothing more than the technological encoding of certain practices of organising one's mind.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten