What is tacit (or implicit) knowledge and what does it have to do with learning? To answer this question, we have to explore bike riding, expert blindness, a Chinese room, and how we remember.

0:00 An intro to tacit knowledge
0:45 Let's try an experiment
1:42 "Weak tacit knowledge"
3:36 Expert blindness
5:31 "Body knowledge"
8:03 "Social tacit knowledge" and Searle's Chinese Room
11:10 How do you learn tacit knowledge?

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REFERENCES

The bones of the video come from: Collins, H. (2019). Tacit and explicit knowledge. University of Chicago press. I changed the labels he gave for the different kinds of tact knowledge he identifies because I found them pretty confusing.

Michael Polanyi is credited with first identifying and discussing tacit knowledge. His thoughts can be found in: Polanyi, M., & Sen, A. (2009). The tacit dimension. University of Chicago press.

The "explicit to implicit" model of skill acquisition is commonly exemplified by the Dreyfus model:
Dreyfus, S. E., & Dreyfus, H. L. (1980). A fivestage model of the mental activities involved in directed skill acquisition. California Univ Berkeley Operations Research Center. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA084...

A good introduction to Searle's Chinese Room (with plenty of references), can be found here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ch...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Star Trek clip from    • Star Trek Original Series Intro (HQ)  

The physics of bike riding visuals come from this gem from 1970: Jones, D. E. (1970). The stability of the bicycle. Physics today, 23(4), 3440. Available here: https://home.phys.ntnu.no/brukdef/und...

The clip of a robot riding a bicycle came from:    • Amazing Bike Riding Robot! Can Cycle,...  

“Frampold” entry and other rare word screenshots from the OED found here: https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/74166

The recipe screenshots are from Serious Eats: https://www.seriouseats.com/thefood... https://www.seriouseats.com/spicycar....

Urban Dictionary add word screen found here: https://my.urbandictionary.com/add.php

Image of Harry Collins from Alexei Kouprianov on Wikipedia. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...