8 Matching Annotations
- Feb 2019
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dougengelbart.org dougengelbart.org
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deeper human processes that direct a given word to be typed
E.g. drafting a manifesto vs randomly hitting keys
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structure
Assuming this refers to "process hierarchy"?
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the intelligence of a human being, derived ultimately from the characteristics of individual nerve cells,
Reduction/anti-reductionism debate awaits here.
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executive capability
Executive capabilities/processes compared. Latter are tied to metacognition in some learning theories. Here tacit knowledge is included in capabilities and excluded from processes (i.e. as inferior or biasing?)- if I'm reading correctly.
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In other words, the human mind neither learns nor acts by large leaps, but by steps organized or structured so that each one depends upon previous steps.
Learning theory.
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involving the unconscious processing and mediating of received and self-generated information, and the unconscious mediating of conscious processing itself.
Anticipating more on this...
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For instance, an aborigine who possesses all of our basic sensory-mental-motor capabilities, but does not possess our background of indirect knowledge and procedure, cannot organize the proper direct actions necessary to drive a car through traffic, request a book from the library, call a committee meeting to discuss a tentative plan, call someone on the telephone, or compose a letter on the typewriter.
Nor could I, who can do all these things, survive very long in an Australian desert - just to balance the example ;-)
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- Oct 2017
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opencreativity.trubox.ca opencreativity.trubox.ca
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Massiveness
Massiveness can also destroy sense of connection; like suddenly finding yourself in the middle of a busy freeway and you don't know where anyone is going or where they came from.
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