I have already stressed the difference between getting information and getting it into your mind.

Machine-assisted translation. The original Russian publication is linked below.

I have already stressed the difference between getting information and getting it into your mind. It's a very important topic, and, as my observations show, very poorly understood by people. The Strugatskys in Picnic have a dialogue between Noonan and Valentine. In it, Valentine says that a person does not need “recognition”.…