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   Ouisie to JimD   
   Re: first principals vs analogy   
   30 Apr 18 21:24:03   
   
   From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018042714175897036-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > both are ways to approach and solve problems.  In very general terms, one   
   > is to understand how something works, the other is to do what has worked   
   > in the past.  We humans all use both methods to varying degrees.   
      
   I've observed that humans tend to prefer the Lazy approach.   
      
   > This all ties in nicely with my ( and my friends ) band volume problems.   
   > Kind of helps me understand why people insist on doing things some old way   
   > that no longer works.   
      
   I've found so very often that they persist on doing things that never worked   
   )   
      
   > They are thinking in analogies.   
      
   I Wish they'd get get into Thinking!   
      
   > Such and such worked once, and it'll work again.  To think that way they   
   > don't have to really think at all.   
      
   And that's why they're Zombies, because they don't think at all.   
      
   > They don't have to to really look at the causes of OUR problems.  Sure,   
   > floor wedges and cranking it up to be heard might have worked back in the   
   > days of 50 watt or less guitar amps.  It doesn't work now that the guitar   
   > guy has a Marshall stack and is half deaf.   
      
   Thanks to all the extra power, they just deaf faster nowadays ;)   
      
      
      
      
   > daytime duo gig tomorrow.  oh boy .....   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   I Love daytime gigs!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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