> On Feb 19, 2015, at 6:14 AM, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> One part of this frame of which abduction is a part that I was exploring in
> terms of creative cognition is 'closure': the human internal process by
> which one decides something is 'finished'.
Dear Terry,
It was a pleasure to read the 2001 paper cited in your post. We share many ideas but apply them differently. I’m with you all the way with regard to feelings in cognition, but would like more detail on how feelings tie to different thoughts. Are they simply broadcasts of neuro-transmitters? in A Theory of Design Thinking, I have taken the plunge and mapped different ranges of feeling to different modes of thought, paying close attention to whether they were appropriate to it. I need to be even more specific too, but mapping to modes provides a researchable hypothesis.
I have also suggested that “closure" is essential to expressing and tagging any recognizable and recallable object of thought (through the container schema underlying the Formative mode of thought) and to conclude any Intentional thought (through goal criteria in the Evaluative mode ). A Reflective loop (from Reflective to Formative to Procedural to Evaluative to Reflective thought) enables both revision of an expression (object of thought, design, artifact, situation etc.) and ending a purposeful thought. Neither the Formative object or the evaluated thought sheds its context (drops its links). The links simply lose salience at that moment and remain in memory.
I can’t yet see how abductive thought and closure get reconciled, unless it is at moments of Formative expression or insight.
I am about to post a paper on Evaluative thought and would appreciate your critique of it. I’ll send you the draft. Let me know if you are willing and I will wait for your comments before posting it. Otherwise, I’ll just post it and hope you will comment on it.
Thanks for your thoughts,
Chuck
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