video player The Future of Reasoning | Michael Stevens (Lottocracy) Posts where this video is embedded Distributed Cognition Not only is knowledge distributed, but cognition is also distributedVideos: Michael Stevens, Dan Sperber, Hugo MercierThe Future of Reasoning Reason and logic are strugglingTags: confirmation bias (5) | Dan Sperber (5) | deliberative democracy (12) | democracy (33) … Continue reading The Future of Reasoning Reason and logic are struggling
Gurteen Knowledge Blog May 7, 2021, 15:34I recently came across a fascinating theory concerning the evolution of human reason known as “The Argumentative Theory of Human Reason”. However, I prefer to use the term “theory of social reasoning” or simply “social reasoning”. The theory proposes that the primary function of reason is not to improve our … Continue reading Social Reasoning The Argumentative Theory of Human Reason
Over many years of elementary school, high school, and even college and graduate school, we’re never explicitly taught to think outside the brain; we’re not shown how to employ our bodies and spaces and relationships in the service of intelligent thought. Yet this instruction is available if we know where to look; our teachers are … Continue reading The Extended Mind: the Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Annie Murphy Paul (2021)
Gurteen Knowledge Blog October 6, 2021, 15:35If I ignore a Dibert tweet where Wally claims to be a raging sea of knowledge management and strategic thinking, my top tweet of the month with the highest engagement rate was this one How Humans Think When They Think As Part of a Group. The word for it is … Continue reading Tweet of the Month September 2021 September 2021
The argumentative theory of reasoning proposes that reason did not evolve to help us to reason individually but to reason together – in other words, socially. Reasoning is generally seen as the process of thinking about something to help us come to better beliefs and decisions. However, there is substantial evidence that our reasoning process, … Continue reading The Argumentative Theory of Human Reason We did not evolve to reason individually but to reason socially
Not only is knowledge distributed, but cognition is also distributed. Not only is our knowledge distributed, but our cognition is also distributed. In other words, we don’t just think inside our heads. Other people and objects are also involved in cognition. Consciously or subconsciously, these other objects affect our thinking and decision-making. A simple example … Continue reading Distributed Cognition Not only is knowledge distributed, but cognition is also distributed
What is the difference between information and knowledge? In everyday language, the words “knowledge and “information” are used loosely and interchangeably. Knowledge is frequently defined something like this: Knowledge is a fluid mix of framed experience, values, contextual information, and expert insight that provides a framework for evaluating new experience and information. It originates and is … Continue reading Knowledge Only Exists in the Mind Everything else is information
