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imo, it amounts to revisiting concepts once more general principles are found β€” and needed. For instance, you learn the alphabet, and it's hard. the order is tricky. the sounds are tricky, etc. but eventually, it get distilled to a pattern. But you still have to start from A to remember what letter 6 is, until you encounter that problem many times, and then the brain creates a 6=F mapping. I think of it in economic terms: when the brain realizes it's cheaper to create a generalization, it does so on the fly, and that generalization takes over the task.

Somtimes it's almost like creating a specialist shard to take over the task. Driving is hard at first, with very high task overload, lots to pay attention to. With practice, it becomes a little automated part of yourself takes care of those tasks while your main general intelligence can do whatever it likes, even as the "driver" deals with seriously difficult tasks.



It’s almost like a tuning fork. When the mapping becomes 6=F the two separate tuning forms are now sympathetic to a frequency.




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