Naming Concepts
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Naming Concepts
If we desire to learn a subject, then we will have to learn some concepts from that subject. We humans like to come up with a short, crisp name for a concept which can be described in many words.
Sometimes a single word can name a concept. Many of these words share a common suffix. For example, the sequence of letters "ism" is a commonly found suffix. What are some of the most commonly used such suffixes?
For each suffix used in single word names, tell me how many concepts you know.
Sometimes a few words are used together to name a concept. Words such as effect, syndrome, paradox, law, and principle are used as the final word in such a multi-word name that denotes a concept. What other words are used in a similar capacity?
For each of the multi-word names that have a specific word as the last word, tell me how many concepts you know about for each of those final words.
These two naming methods follow some fixed pattern for constructing the name. Besides these two ways of naming concepts, what other ways of naming concepts exist that also follow some fixed pattern for constructing the name?
I would prefer to consider all these other ways of naming concepts, that also follow some fixed pattern for constructing the name, as the third category. Give me an approximate number of named concepts that have names in this third category.
We investigated three categories of naming concepts. Give me an estimate of the number of concepts whose names are in none of the three categories.
We started examining generalized patterns of naming concepts. We came up with an estimate of the number of concept names in three categories of naming patterns. We also came up with an estimate of the number of concept names whose names cannot be considered as belonging to these three categories. We obtained a very large number, which represents the names of all known concepts.
Is this number reasonable?
If one were to encounter one concept name every day, then how many years will be required to encounter all these concepts?
Information Overload
How many concepts does a typical 20 year old human know?
So, considering the number of concepts known to either an AI chatbot or a typical human, If I were to ask a knowledgeable AI chatbot to just tell me a brief description of every single known concept, and if the chatbot were to do it, then the chatbot will encounter difficulty in fulfilling the request (a computation or output overload), and I will experience an information overload.
Generally speaking, humans are always seeking something. Among all the things that a single human seeks, the human can prioritize and identify the top few things that they seek. Some humans can identify just one such thing as the most important thing that they are seeking.
Any concept that is not directly relevant to the few important things that a human is seeking can be considered to be just a random concept. Constantly seeking or accepting irrelevant or random concepts leads to information overload.
The idea of "good to know" when applied to such random concepts is counterproductive. Most information is useless to an individual.
The way out of information overload is to figure out what one's focus really is, and then seek information about only those concepts.
That requires a human to prioritize and answer the key question: "What am I really seeking?"
What I may declare as "I am seeking this" could be broad (e.g. I desire to have my own personal utopia) or specific (e.g. I would like to eat a cookie).
Depending on whether the thing a person is seeking is broad or specific, the number of relevant concepts could be many or few. For most normally sought things, the number of relevant concepts will be much smaller than all the known concepts to mankind.
Once I am sure of what I am seeking, any information not directly relevant becomes noise and distraction.
When I think about such "noise" or "distraction" kind of information, almost all advertisements and almost all news stories immediately come to my mind. What other routine things spew out such "noise" and distract me from what I am seeking.
Seeking Personal Utopia
From the perspective of our categorization of naming concepts, in which category is the concept of "utopia", and in which category is the concept of "personal utopia"?
Give me some historical perspective on the concepts of "utopia" and "personal utopia".
Life is not a trivia contest, for which we should learn a lot of facts. Life is not about showing "I'm smarter than you all", for which we should gain an understanding about a lot of concepts. You might have heard slogans like "Arts for art's sake", but that slogan looks like a marketing tool used by those artists who want to earn a living by generating art so that they can lead a good life, so that they can have their own personal utopia.
Life is not about being immensely wealthy or famous. Wealth and fame both are means to an end. The real goal is to live a good life. A good life can be had without fame. A good life can be had with average amount of wealth. In a Utopian society, a good life can be easily had with less than average amount of wealth. A good life can be had without ideal health. Not everything in our life needs to be perfect for our life to be good.
For me, personally, I am seeking my own personal utopia. In addition, as a member of this society, I am seeking societal utopia. The reason for seeking the societal utopia is because my personal utopia would be limited in a non-ideal society.
For that I will gather whatever knowledge is necessary to accomplish that particular goal. It is a much simpler goal than knowing a whole bunch of facts. It is a much simpler goal than gaining an understanding of how the universe works.
Knowledge gives us a clearer vision of our potential future. However, just gathering knowledge is not sufficient. It needs to be applied and put to use.