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Phaedrus split human understanding into two classes: classical and romantic understanding. He defined classical understanding as mechanical, interested only in the underlying form of the image. It works with reason and by laws. He calls it “straightforward, ....

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.... industry if they care that it isn’t romantic. I believe I have mostly romantic understanding under this lid of mine. I tend to think with my heart instead of my head. I see a flower for its beauty, not its pistil and stamen. I’m more interested in literature and poetry than science and math. I would rather create photographs than dissect a squid. That having been said, I doubt if any person is strictly one or the other. The classical self in me has taken apart an old camera body, just to see what was in there and how it worked. If it’s something I’m interested in, I like to know everything about it, not just the pretty and exciting p ....