🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. One seeks the most general ideas of operation which will bring together in simple, logical and unified form the largest possible circle of formal relationships. In this effort toward logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature." - Einstein

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@zleap

There is no one factor really. Id say if we are to reduce it to the most prominent cause it would be mental health. Mental health is not stigmatized, the dutch are understanding and try not to have knee jerk reactions. They raise eachother to be mentally healthy and encourage the mental health of others. Thats all it really takes.

@lucifargundam @Chrisleon27

@lucifargundam

Yea apparently. But violence is so rare int he netherlands its still almost a non-issue by the standards of any other country.

@Chrisleon27

"I do not believe in freedom of the will. Schopenhauer's words: "Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills" accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of freedom of will preserves me from taking too seriously myself and my fellow men as acting and deciding individuals and from losing my temper." - Einstein

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@lucifargundam

Thats really just a form of conceptual understanding first IMO.. You are trying to construct the conceptual understanding through those means.

@zpartacoos

"It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature" - Einstein

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"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man." - Einstein

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@Chrisleon27 Best place on earth as far as the people go. At least IMO.

@Chrisleon27 Netherlands.

@zpartacoos I think some people think they learn better math first. But I think these people fail to truly understand the concepts, they are more like parrots applying patterns to things they dont understand.

The reason I say this is usually when you ask someone with a math-first understanding to reason about something they dont already have the math for, they fail, even if it is a simple and obvious logical extension to the principle. Its why so many PhDs are really poor at creating directly useful products.

@Chrisleon27 It was literally an Einstein quote from an interview with him. So yes it is Einstein's, but published by a different author.

@zpartacoos Their physics teacher is shit, learning the math wont gain them understanding, and understanding first will ultimately make the math quite trivial. That said you still will have to do the math.

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...: - Einstein

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"Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God. Only exceptionally gifted individuals or especially noble communities rise essentially above this level; in these there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I will call it the cosmic religious sense. This is hard to make clear to those who do not experience it, since it does not involve an anthropomorphic idea of God; the individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance. Indications of this cosmic religious sense can be found even on earlier levels of development—for example, in the Psalms of David and in the Prophets. The cosmic element is much stronger in Buddhism, as, in particular, Schopenhauer's magnificent essays have shown us. The religious geniuses of all times have been distinguished by this cosmic religious sense, which recognizes neither dogmas nor God made in man's image. Consequently there cannot be a church whose chief doctrines are based on the cosmic religious experience. It comes about, therefore, that we find precisely among the heretics of all ages men who were inspired by this highest religious experience; often they appeared to their contemporaries as atheists, but sometimes also as saints. Viewed from this angle, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are near to one another." - Einstein

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@zpartacoos As Einstein stated, the math itself is not explained to them. They wont be able to produce exact numbers.

That said they understand it enough to answer logical questions like if you give them a scenario and ask them what the time difference will be they will be able to tell you what clock is ahead of the other. They can actually describe how the situation will play out conceptually.

@hans_w

Teaching via example is a great tool to help people understand complex ideas IMO.

@zpartacoos

"It is easy to follow in the sacred writings of the Jewish people the development of the religion of fear into the moral religion, which is carried further in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially those of the Orient, are principally moral religions. An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. All are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life." - Einstein

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@zpartacoos I disagree. I have explained special relativity to children without needing to dilute it and they seemed to understand it quite well. Adults grasp it when explained well too. The issue is these complex concepts rarely have good explanations so you dont see it play out often.

@hans_w Intuition is powerful and mysterious for sure.