26 November 2023 - learning how
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To do something, you have to know how. You don't have to understand how
to do it, or realize that you're doing it, but you have to act so as to
get it done. In that sense, every electron knows how to be an electron;
it's born that way. The interesting cases are where you have to learn
how. Well, every living thing is born knowing how to be alive, but there
is a question: How did the first living thing learn it? If it is
possible for life to emerge, then you can start from zero and learn to
build rockets.