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Across the Chasm
Exploring a New World
Context: A friend on Facebook was trying to access one of my old Medium stories, but it’s behind the paywall. I quote the paragraph pertinent to our conversation plus provide a Friend Link at the end. It’s what we’re yakking about that might be of interest to Medium readers. From this long buried post in a comments section, intellectual history may be gleaned.
Here’s a paragraph from that story (friend link below):
“Per my basket-weaving here on Medium, I’ve bought in to STEM + PATH, where the + represents a bridging operation, over what we used to call the C.P. Snow chasm. I’ve also paid attention to the A’s insertion into STEM, making STEAM, however I’ve kept the A meaning Anthropology, with Art under that umbrella. Then PATH has the same A (standing for the same thing), meaning we might cross them Scrabble-wise, while keeping our memes coherent.”
When I first encountered you and Walue Theory on the Metaphysics group on Facebook, I was trying out a visual AI pun where I talked about BASKET and PATH and STEM. Of those three acronyms, only STEM is well-known and means Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics. I picked up PATH from Andrew Hacker, author of The Math Myth but forget what his letters stand for: I adopted Philosophy Anthropology Theater History.
