On 4/3/2012 8:39 AM, Nathan Rice wrote:
Ultimately, the answers to your questions exist in the world for you to see. How does a surgeon describe a surgical procedure? How does a chef describe a recipe? How does a carpenter describe the process of building cabinets? Aside from specific words, they all use natural language, and it works just fine.
Not really. Surgeon's learn by *watching* a surgeon who knows the operation and next (hopefully) doing a particular surgery under supervision of such a surgeon, who watches and talks, and may even grab the instruments and re-show. They then really learn by doing the procedure on multiple people. They often kill a few on the way to mastery.
I first learned basic carpentry and other skills by watching my father. I don't remember that he ever said anything about how to hold the tools.
I similarly learned basic cooking by watching my mom. My knowledge of how to crack open an egg properly and separate the yolk from the rest is a wordless memory movie.
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