Dear Kristina,
Thanks for this post. I am aware of Antonio Damasio’s work and I agree with him on this point and others. I also agree with you on the importance of neuroscience in these issues, in design research, and in design.
That said, I am not knowledgeable and skilled enough to deploy neuroscience in a reasonableway, so I’d rather not address it. No one can be expert in everything.
There are people who do address these issues. Project UMA brings together a partnership of professors and researchers from Technological University of Delft, Cambridge University, University of Vienna, and Swinburne University of Technology toexplore some of these issues under the rubric of neuroaffective design.
Using neuroscience to support the argumentation in some of the recent threads would require reasoned argument from evidence applied carefully to the claims made in different notes. Since I do not understand the science involved here, I’ll stick with reasoned arguments from issues I understand.
Perhaps I will one day know enough about neuroscience to say something interesting. I have a bit of study and learning ahead of me to do so.
Until then, I welcome your comments. I’d be delighted to see some comments to these threads from someone who does have something useful from the perspective of neuroscience with the carefully developed argumentation and robust evidence that make Damasiosuch a pleasure to read.
Yours,
Ken
Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | [log in to unmask] | Phone +61 3 9214 6102 | http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design
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Kristina Borjesson wrote:
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I have jumped in and out of the discussion, which has had it’s high and low points.
I might have missed something but I have so far seen no reference to neuroscience. When discussing issues linked to mind and body, self and consciousness, reality and illusion, and more, advances within neuroscience are very relevant. In a recent keynote a famous Swedish neurologist said something like: “neuroscience can today prove what philosophers suggested hundreds of years ago.” Or as put by Antonio Damasio: (free quote) “as a neuroscientist you must have a good understanding of philosophy.”
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