The way we understand the way we understand
WRITING in response to Stan Courtney’s comment on repeated phrases that make sense, such as “the way we understand the way we understand” (20 January), Stewart Haywood tells us: “I watched my daughter standing in front of a mirror this morning, looking at herself looking at herself.”
Gordon Thackray, however, takes Courtney’s original idea a step further by suggesting that a fruitful future line of research for neuroscientists could be to examine “the way we understand the way we understand the way we understand”.
David Murphin, meanwhile, comes up with the more…
