Understanding and learning

This week I made some progress in my understanding of "common sense". Also here, a key element is related to the interpretation of different representations in the mind. Minsky proposes that we are constantly processing many analogies in parallel. This is very much contradictory to our "single-self" views that we use to answer questions like who we are, where we are from and what we do. During these conversations or thoughts we reflect mainly on our actions, on what "we" did. Therefore, the "single-self" view must be constantly switching between different realms of actions, physical spaces, social and dominion relationships. In every realm we keep updating representations that respond to the same memory address, I would say. So, when one representation can not be used to solve a problem, we will try to switch to another model. The core of these idea's can also be used to explain why analogies are so usefull during "learning".
By the way, I also came across a statement on learning. It was pointed out that learning is another container word where we put a lot of different idea's. A very interesting remark on learning in relation to science:
"Students who don't feel they have exceptional mathematical aptitude ought to start with mathematics, anyway -- until they cannot tolerate any more. You might object that this would not be much fun. But for me, the most fun is learning to do something that "you're not good at", yet. So dialectically, the most fun is the least fun. Perhaps a person that hasn't learned that shouldn't do science at all." (Minsky in comp.ai somewhere)
It's a very difficult lesson to learn, as it has to do with chosing "suffering" above "pleasure", or as it is stated above, finding "pleasure" in "suffering". This is certainly somewhat contradictory in folk-psychology terms. One way of leaving this contradiction would be to use better representations of pain and pleasure. Both aspects also directly correlate with goal and purpose mechanisms inside the society of mind.