Unlearn to learn something new

zash · #1 Friday, April 09, 2010

This is an era of hi-tech and automation. We are depending on machines. Machines are said to be differentiated from human in logic, thinking etc.

What i want to say is that machine like computer has to unlearn to learn a new thing. Does is applicable to human also???

If yes then how machine differs from human specific to this point??

If no then why you "unlearn" the old rules/ formulae/ logics etc and replace it with the new developments when you are in are in a new subject/ technology

nageen · #2 Friday, April 09, 2010

Once I studied Aldous Huxley's essay Knowledge and Understanding;there he gives some concept about learning and unlearning.

Following is the excerpt from that essay.

Learning is as necessary as unlearning. Wherever technical proficiency is needed, learning is indispensable. From youth to old age, from generation to generation, we must go on adding to our stock of useful and relevant knowledge. Only in this way can we hope to deal effectively with the physical environment, and with the abstract ideas which make it possible for men to find their way through the complexities of civilization and technology. But this is not the right way to deal with our personal reactions to ourselves or to other human beings. In such situations there must be an unlearning of accumulated concepts;

By adding conceptual knowledge to conceptual knowledge, we make conscious understanding possible; but this potential understanding can be actualized only when we have subtracted all that we have added. It is because we have memories that we are convinced of our self-identity as persons and as members of a given society.

http://danliterature.wordpress.com/a...understanding/

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Originally Posted by zash

What i want to say is that machine like computer has to unlearn to learn a new thing. Does is applicable to human also???

I think this is applicable and this should be. People who don't have flexibility to change their minds according to the needs are not much successful.

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Originally Posted by zash

If no then why you "unlearn" the old rules/ formulae/ logics etc and replace it with the new developments when you are in are in a new subject/ technology

Usually we don't really unlearn completely; rather we associate our old knowledge with the new one .This makes the learning process more feasible.

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