[Glass Joe]

Originally Posted by Michael Chui

One thing you don't note is that "intellectualising" requires experience in the first place. You cannot think about something you have not experienced.

I think I understand the point you are trying to make, Michael. However, I think you and Shaden are using the word "experience" in different contexts.

When Shaden says:

Originally Posted by Shaden

There is no experience to help us when a problem occurs.

I think he means "experience" in the context of "How many years of job experience do you have?" or "How much have you actually experienced in that new foreign country before you pack everything up and move there?"

And when you say:

Originally Posted by Michael Chui

You cannot think about something you have not experienced.

I think you mean it more like "sensory experience" or "direct experience" rather than in the context Shaden uses, which is more like accumulated "life experience", "job experience", or some other skill-based experience you get over time.

Actually, as I was writing out this post, I found a wikipedia article on experience. Gotta love wikipedia!

Here's a quote from the article which makes the same distinction between types of experience I was trying to make, but I think wikipedia says it better:

The word "experience" may refer (somewhat ambiguously) both to mentally unprocessed immediately-perceived events as well as to the purported wisdom gained in subsequent reflection on those events or interpretation of them.

Great article BTW.