Tacit Knowledge

goodmythical

This is related to the "p-zombie" (philosophical zombie) question, no? The idea that a being that if there were a being without access to tacit knowledge, you couldn't really prove that they don't have access because they'd struggle to communicate it in exactly the same way a person with access to their feelings would. Like "describe the color red" -> it is hot/warm vs it is lucky or romantic or "blue" -> it is cold vs it is suffocating like the ocean vs it is free like the sky.

saulpw

For a good exploration, see "Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons" (1995). https://www.jstor.org/stable/2782506

mickelsen

Reminds me of this small post, which I found here on HN, and someone suggested the author was trying to define the concept. https://web.archive.org/web/20230926225119/https://www.koopu...