Sara Walker: belief

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…Yeah. Use as words as one way to make people think. Yeah. A lot of my, what happens in my mind when I’m thinking about ideas is I’ve been presented with this information about how people think about things, and I try to go around to different communities and hear the ways that different, whether it’s hanging out with a bunch of artists, or philosophers, or scientists thinking about things. They all think about it different ways. Then I just try to figure out how do you take the structure of the way that we’re talking about it and turn it slightly so you have all the same pieces that everybody sees are there, but the description that you’ve come up with seems totally different. They can understand that they understand the pattern you’re describing, but they never heard the structure underlying it described the way that you describe it. Is there words or terms you remember that disturbed people the most? Maybe the positive sense of disturbed, is assembly theory, I suppose, is one.…

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