Some thoughts on Adrian’s purposefully vague metaphor

I understood the ocean as holding every single idea in existence. Except that there can never be a finite number of ideas because water evaporates and there is precipitation and ideas are constantly being added or made obsolete.

 

The boat appears to me as a bit of a lifesaver. But maybe that’s because I have a fear of deep water.

 

Here is where my train (or boat) of thoughts is taking me…

 

When you’re on a boat (or a canoe or a raft or a kayak) you can only ever see the surface of the body of water you are floating on. Underneath you, the expanse remains dank and unexposed.  For me, the element of fear is present.  You peer through the surface, trying to make out the shapes underneath for comfort, that solid surface of surety.  But you can only really imagine what may be there; you can only speculate.

 

Much like the “speculative learning” this course is said to consist of. (Well that was an unintentional discovery).