Oh I was actually hoping you’d reply! I may have hallucinated the exact quote I mentioned but here is something from Ulam: “Ulam on physical intuition and visualization,” it’s on Steve Hsu’s blog. And I might have hallucinated the thing about Poincaré being tested by Binet, that might just be an urban legend I didn’t verify. You can find Poincaré’s struggles with coordination and dexterity in “Men of Mathematics,” but that’s a lot less extreme than the story I passed on. I am confident in Tao’s preference for analysis over visualization. If you have the time look up “Terence Tao” on Gwern’s website.
I’m not very familiar with the field of neuroscience, but it seems to me that we’re probably pretty far from being able to provide a satisfactory answer to these questions. Is that true from your understanding of where the field is at? What sorts of techniques/technology would we need to develop in order for us to start answering these questions?
Oh I was actually hoping you’d reply! I may have hallucinated the exact quote I mentioned but here is something from Ulam: “Ulam on physical intuition and visualization,” it’s on Steve Hsu’s blog. And I might have hallucinated the thing about Poincaré being tested by Binet, that might just be an urban legend I didn’t verify. You can find Poincaré’s struggles with coordination and dexterity in “Men of Mathematics,” but that’s a lot less extreme than the story I passed on. I am confident in Tao’s preference for analysis over visualization. If you have the time look up “Terence Tao” on Gwern’s website.
I’m not very familiar with the field of neuroscience, but it seems to me that we’re probably pretty far from being able to provide a satisfactory answer to these questions. Is that true from your understanding of where the field is at? What sorts of techniques/technology would we need to develop in order for us to start answering these questions?
In case anyone else is going looking, here is the relevant account of Tao as a child and here is a screenshot of the most relevant part: