#generalizing — Public Fediverse posts
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#Intelligence is not just about #pattern-#matching. Equally important is the ability to draw #generalizations.
Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 work of art Fountain is a prime example of this. Before Duchamp’s piece, a urinal was just a urinal. But, with a change of perspective, Duchamp turned it into a work of art. At that moment, he was #generalizing about #art.
When we generalise, #emotion overrides the entrenched and seemingly “rational” classifications of ideas and everyday objects. It suspends the usual, nearly machinic operations of pattern-matching.