On 1/10/05 1:37 PM, "Klaus Krippendorff" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> isn't it amazing to realize that cognitive scientists don't open the brain
> to find out what they are theorizing? that we so easily talk about other
> peoples' ideas when all we have is our own constructions of these ideas.
Klaus: I really don't know what you intend here. (I might grasp its tone if
I could hear you say it.) I think it is both amazing and wonderful that
cognitive scientists don't have to open the brain to theorize about it. I
hope that was your meaning too. I am glad that neuro scientists are looking
much more deeply (physically and even intellectually) than cognitive
scientists and are abstractly modeling what they find too. We mentalists (my
meaning) are interested in what is at work inside that is so unknowable
from the outside. Of course I realize that we will never know anything but
an autopoetic experience because everyone is uniquely natured and nurtured ,
but we will get closer to what a living system is if we include the workings
of the embodied brain in our considerations as Terry has been encouraging
for some time.
Best wishes (I'm off to london to be a Grandpa and observe a real living
system evolve, autopoesis and all.)
Your friend the "mentalist"
Chuck
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