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Re:Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives by scottLobster on Friday July 21, 2017 @03:39PM (#14823282)
Perhaps, but not necessarily. Sadly I've found most people have reasonable innate intelligence but were never taught logic. They were never given the subtle tools need to even figure out basic problems on a logical basis, instead relying on intuition and some basic pattern recognition. Dealing with vast logical abstractions, even if put in layman's terms, simply overwhelms them.

You first have to teach them analysis, how to break things down and recombine them. A good example here is teaching beginning computer science students how to divide a large, complicated task into a long list of small tasks. Or teaching derivations in basic physics. It's something that's not really formally taught outside of the sciences, and that's a shame.

Re:Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives by moretai on Friday July 21, 2017 @04:51PM (#14823676)
Any books to get improve my logic muscle?
Re:Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives by scottLobster on Friday July 21, 2017 @05:53PM (#14823976)
There are plenty of good books on Mathematical logic and set theory, but they're pretty dense, dry and tend to lack context.

Honestly I'd recommend the more complex puzzle games. Top recommendation there would probably be SpaceChem: https://www.gog.com/game/spacechem

Solutions to each problem are readily available on youtube, and while it starts off extremely basic the mid and upper level puzzles force you to break things down into distinct parts and have them work together. Best part is there's theoretically thousands of solutions to every puzzle, so even if you crack and look one up, you can then challenge yourself to make a better solution in some way. In fact the game shows you metrics at the end of each puzzle, showing how your solution compared to other players in terms of time, number of parts used, etc.

It's also a lot more entertaining than a textbook as has a pretty awesome soundtrack. :)

Re:Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives by moretai on Thursday July 27, 2017 @08:39AM (#14864691)
But nonetheless, this is exactly the kind of thing that will open the door for me! Thanks.
Re:Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives by moretai on Thursday July 27, 2017 @08:36AM (#14864664)
I'd still be interested if you had any books to recommend.
Re:Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives by BOOSTERHIDROGEN on Saturday July 22, 2017 @04:13AM (#14825993)
If the books are dense and dry then how we teach them about logic.
Re:Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives by ElonsMosque on Friday July 21, 2017 @05:29PM (#14823864)
Bump, I'm curious about this aswell.