<div>>Robert Bradbury wrote:</div> <div>>In fact, if you know how to manage it, looking at a billion or a trillion<BR>>things (molecules, stars, etc.) actually gives you some interesting insights<BR>>as to how the Universe functions. Particularly when it doesn't behave as<BR>>its supposed to (e.g. the "abnormal" supernova spotted in February). One<BR>>learns a lot by understanding when the "rules" are never violated and what<BR>>the exceptions are.</div> <div><BR>Anna Replies:)</div> <div>I agree, I think that branching out of your field of interest will only generate better</div> <div>insights especially if your able to interconnect and use the information to create</div> <div>something new. On the other hand, I think it would be hard to be able to interconnect</div> <div>if I had too many fields to deal with. An AI will probably be able to have this skill</div> <div>which will allow it to concentrate on many areas at the
same time, solving many </div> <div>problems simultaneously but I don't believe too many humans can do that. Most </div> <div>humans have fields of interest. In my opinion,brilliant, is being able to</div> <div>interconnect and come up with something unique within that branch of interests. </div> <div>I figure, a form of boredom, would be someone that hasn't begun to formulate their</div> <div>basic interests. </div> <div>Does that make sense or am I again sounding dazed and confused?</div> <div>(Sometimes I wonder if my mother did me a favor by sending me to french school:)</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks for your time</div> <div>Anna</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div><BR><BR>Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at <br>this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it. <br>Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of <br>knowledge and use it better.<br>-Mark van
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