Feynman himself did something similar when presented with what he saw to be philosophical gobbledygook: I had this uneasy feeling of “I’m not adequate,” until finally I said to myself, “I’m going to stop, and read one sentence slowly, so I can figure out what the hell it means.” So I stopped—at random—and read the next sentence very carefully. I can’t remember it precisely, but it was very close to this: “The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels.” I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? “People
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