and how its related to iq.
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There is a great scene in South Park where scientists were trying to figure something out and there was this massive wall of math calculations and ~~Wendy~~ Heidi looked at it and asked whether they thought a couple of statements were out of order. They realized she was right and she explained she had no idea what anything actually meant so she replaced it with things she did know about and applied the same logic and found that in her abstraction the sentences were out of order. Even though she didn’t what it meant, she saw the logical problem anyway. That is abstraction and it is something humans do very well.
If you ever learn computer science the idea of abstraction starts right away, it is the idea that your can ‘put a box around’ something and instead of learning the exact mechanics of how that box works, you learn how that box interacts with the larger system. Essentially abstraction lets us ‘know enough’ to make good decisions without knowing everything. Understanding how abstractions can lead you astray is the true genius.
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