Comments on: Weblogs and the Codification of Thought /blog/2005/04/weblogs-and-the-codification-of-thought/ But I fear more for Muninn... Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: Sam_S (ShenzhenRen) /blog/2005/04/weblogs-and-the-codification-of-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-5741 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 04:05:05 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2005/04/weblogs-and-the-codification-of-thought.html#comment-5741 Well, now that I read again, I think I just said the same thing you did, but differently.

]]> By: Sam_S (ShenzhenRen) /blog/2005/04/weblogs-and-the-codification-of-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-5739 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 04:02:12 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2005/04/weblogs-and-the-codification-of-thought.html#comment-5739 Excellent observations about a phenomenon that by now must be very large. I haven’t noticed anyone else lay it out quite this way.

I want to point out an even simpler, more basic reason this “codifying” can have good effects. Concepts assemble themselves (at least in my mind) at first as a sort of nebulous collection of other concepts. In other words, one idea gets attached to another by some method of association, and you “understand” something that you didn’t before. Rarely are the concepts carried around mentally as full-grown sentences and paragraphs, though. They’re sort of a mish-mosh of visual image, feeling of connection, and key-words, to oversimplify it.

So even when I “understand” something, it can be hellish to try to communicate the understanding to someone else. Writing it in your blog (as in any other writing for communication) forces the thoughts into some organized, sensible, “communicable” form. It’s great practice for getting your previously vague thoughts to the point of communication, persuasion, or even teaching!

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