We must be prepared to abandon the traditional view that runs from Plato to Piaget and Chomsky that a beginner starts with specific cases and, as he or she becomes more proficient, abstracts and interiorizes more and more sophisticated rules
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The expert is simply not following any rules! He or she is doing just what Socrates and Feigenbaum feared — discriminating thousands of special cases.
— ❐ Peripheral Vision﹕ Expertise in Real World Contexts
- this is a really strange one, feels both obviously true and outrageously defiant
- and I'm unsure how this relates to chunking (in the sense of ~ chess masters store about 20k chunks, comparable to avg. English speaker's vocab; are the chess chunks special cases or abstractions or both or is one of the models bad?)