Dear Klauss
Thank you very much for the link. As i live in a place with very poor
internet connection I could only see parts of it. I did get the general
direction and a sense of it.
I am requesting you and other friend to be kind and patient with me.
My area of re search has been the biological roots of cognition and beauty.
this has been a 30 odd years of re search purely for existential need and
also has been experiential.
My work had been with children and non literate people/ artisans. I have
been on a life long ' existential' research to understand some fundamental
aspects of human beings. having done design education it has tremendously
helped me in many ways to extend my research. Even before I did design
education i was interested in children and learning process. Studing Design
included beauty, creativity, spontaneity, intuition etc in to research.
Research became re search as I began to work with rural/ tribal non
literate artisans. I saw a different world there other than what is being
projected about them as poor, illiterate etc. I found creativity,
happinness, sensitivity, autonomy, humility, beauty. what struck me most
was the way they reared their children. Absolute freedom, no teaching, no
instructions etc.
I have begun to use the term sense literate instead of illiterate and word
literate for literates clearly indicating that one uses senses to cognize
and the other uses words. I found the use of 'reasoning' more among word
literates and less among sense literates. i also found that by default word
literates are engaging with what is known as it has been codified in to
text format where as the sense literates are in the realm of unknown making
sense of things as they go along. Naturally when one is dealing with
'unknown' reasoning has no role to play but have to be open/ keen
observation to know/ to see what is happening where as among text literates
observation has no role. This also means that senses,body and experience
played much more role among sense literates where as mind played major role
among word literates with almost total elimination of body and experience.
'Objectivity' was the final nail which totally eliminated personal
experience. hardly realizing that what is happening in the name of
'objectivity is subjectivity of the mind. look at the number of 'schools
of thought' in every other subject.
In fact for about 7 years i also stopped reading and just started observing
and living with out reasoning for concluding.
When i began to observe how we learn language i found very similar process
of sense literates being used as first language is learned in the process
of living and not from 'text'.
Off course there is a drastic difference even here as among the word
literates language/ linguistic concepts/ catagories dictates the very
experience where as for sense literates language is an outcome of
experience. In fact among the word literates there are more nouns and sense
literates more verbs. you see we are dealing with 'knowledge'.
As far as i can see i feel reasoning is used for communication, arguments
etc and reason is the quality of what is self organized and understood.
It is interesting that there is a quote by Albert Einstein on reason and
intution. 'The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a
faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has
forgotten the gift.
As you mentioned i am not done with my research. I would like to open this
up.
Jinan
dear jinan,
>
> i am not sure if you have settled on cognitive explanations while looking
> for non-reasonable behavior
> or
> if you are interested in exploring limitations of cognitive explanations.
>
> i work on the latter and found an interesting youtube video that makes an
> important point on the latter:
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT-zZ0PMqgI>
>
> klaus
>
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> Subject: study on the limitation of reason in cognitive science
>
> Friends
>
> I am looking for any study that addresses the limitation of reason
> especially by cognitive scientists.
> What is coming out my research is that reason is not a cognitive tool as
> it can not deal with unknown. If you are aware of any studies please help.
>
> Jinan
>
> Independent researcher- culture, cognition, de colonization, children,
> aesthetic sense, natural ergonomics, sustainability, indigenous wisdom
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