#mindhack 15 Intuition Pumps
The message may be to trigger our intuitive neurons to understand the words used by him in his posts in simple ways like star = celebrity, meditation = thinking, veda = knowledge etc. Two trains, 100 miles apart, are approaching each other on the same track, one going 30 miles per hour, the other going 20 miles per hour. A bird flying 120 miles per hour starts at train A (when they are 100 miles apart), flies to train B, turns around and flies back to the approaching train A, and so forth, until the two trains collide. How far has the bird flown when the collision occurs? “Two hundred and forty miles,” von Neumann answered almost instantly. “Darn,” replied his colleague, “I predicted you’d do it the hard way, summing the infinite series.” “Ay!” von Neumann cried in embarrassment, smiting his forehead. “There’s an easy way!” (Hint: How long until the trains collide?) ~ Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity", sometimes...