Dear Charles
Since Ken keeps reminding that this group is for people doing or guiding
Phd in design I am reluctant to write any more to this group.(This is not a
complaint. May be he is justified )
So having raised this aspect of cognitive dissonance I would like to state
few aspects of cognition and then discontinue from responding to the
group. However I may respond directly if that is ok. I am happy to engage
in this search directly and my email is [log in to unmask]
As I said in the earlier mail I am on an existential research and the focus
is cognition. What I mean by cognition is BEING. Knowing is the inherent
quality of the being. Being actually doesn’t have to make sense of the
world because being is an integral aspect of the world. Being is the world.
I am bringing in four aspects of cognition. Cognitive space/ conditions,
cognitive crisis, cognitive dissonance, cognitive damage.
The limitation of the language is that it is linear and experience or
cognition is wholistic. So some amount of re phrasing would be required to
express.
We don’t have to cognize as cognition happens as a choice-less aspect of
being. But what we cognize depends on the space/ conditions that exist.
The over all condition forms us. The term learning also misleads. In fact
we imbibe what ever is happening around us. This is also choice-less.
So cognitive space/ condition is the over all context that forms us. The
physical space, language- both its presence and absence, Psychological
aspects, cultural aspects etc forms the totality that forms us and informs
us.
An example is - There is no word for waste in indigenous communities. So
the concept of waste is absent. Naturally they don’t waste. An attitude of
non wasting is inbuilt in to their conscious ness.
Just the fact that we keep waste paper basket in our living space teaches
our children ‘to waste’.
The environmental and ecological crisis is the outcome of *Cognitive
crisis* and
this is reflection of the crisis with in the human being. What we are
seeing outside is the reflection of what is happening with in us-
fragmentation, alienation etc. The shift of ‘human beings’ to ‘human
knowings’! The incessant need to plan, control, engineer is the result of
‘not being at home’ and the fear of the unknown, the uncertain and the
unpredictable- the separation of the being and the knowing.
Anthropocentrism is the fundamental cause of our alienation as cognition
has also been impacted by this. Our Being-ness moves from Nature to Human.
*Cognitive dissonance* is the result of fragmentation at various levels.
The most obvious is the mind and body. Cognitive dissonance happens when
the biological cognition (senses) and schooled / conditioned cognition
(language) are in conflict. Prolonged conflict creates cognitive rewiring
or cognitive damage. In another words mind cognizes one thing and body
cognizes another and mind being more tangible/ reason oriented denies the
body’s knowing.
Another fragmentation is the fragmentation of the individual and the
collective. The ‘collective’ is not outside of us but another inherent
quality of the being.
*Cognitive damage* is the result of cognitive rewiring that happens due to
forcing ‘reason’ in order to cognize. Infact fragmented ‘reason’
short-circuits comprehension. This happens when language preceeds
experience to ‘inbibe’ the world around. Children needs to root themselves
to the real/ concrete world through senses and experience. But this is
being denied in the modern context where they are taken to a fake world of
toys (bright ones) and schools. Off course now the digital environment will
totally alienate and damage the children.
Goodbye
Jinan
On 22 April 2013 18:32, Charles Burnette <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Hi Jinan,
> On Apr 21, 2013, at 9:30 PM, Jinan K B wrote:
>
> > The moment I saw cognition took place. In a fragmented mind/ body
> situation
> > this may not happen which is cognitive dissonance.
>
> Cognitive dissonance is usually understood as when an experience undercuts
> a cherished belief. Leon Festinger's "Theory of Cognitive Dissonance" is
> where that began. SeeWikipedia
>
> Similarly, "People hold a multitude of cognitions simultaneously, and
> these cognitions form irrelevant, consonant or dissonant relationships with
> one another." http://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/stephens/cdback.html
>
> > As we experience cognition is taking place in the now. Thinking can take
> > place later.
>
> Both sentences imply that dissonance occurs when cognition occurs. I
> believe this happens in the Formative moment, your "now", when one
> apprehends, objectifies, and interprets what is on their minds. Beliefs
> shape perceptions as much as perceptions shape beliefs.
>
> Besides, isn't cognition thinking?
>
> Or, so I believe,
>
> --
Jinan,
'DIGITAL MEDIUM IS A TOOL.DIGITALLY MEDIATED KNOWLEDGE DESTROYS THE BEING'
www.re-cognition.org
www.kumbham.org
http://my.opera.com/jinankb/blog/
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