Re: unboxed structure fields (or class slots)
"Yuri Davidovsky (as work at disclosure dot ie)" <[email protected]>
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> On 13 Jan 2026, at 20:12, David McClain <[email protected]> wrote: > > As a human, I very clearly remember the “Aha!” feelings that I developed in my grad school days as I began to see the disparate subfields of Physics as being just different manifestations of some higher order system. Thermodynamics and Quantum were not really so different, when viewed from a high enough abstract level. There are two layers to human perception: 1. Knowledge, or records of certain facts observed in the reality. 2. Understanding, or capability to conceptualise and thus connect facts/knowledge together. We discovered machines that can operate on knowledge, only to realise that they are missing understanding. Or, to be fair, they do seem to demonstrate some rudimentary level of understanding, but not much beyond that. Thus now the search turns towards research of understanding, and with some luck, we may be able see such machines for ourselves in our lifetimes. However, I strongly suspect that once we have machines that can understand, we immediately will realise that there is another layer of cognition beyond understanding that we ourselves not aware yet. _______________________________________________ Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users [email protected] http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html