Dear Chuck,
Perhaps I missed something. I saw no request for “a little creative thinking.”
Your rhetorical position in this thread has been critique and debate. That’s fine with me. I accepted the debate, answered your questions, and replied to your critique. When someone asks for “a little creative thinking,” it usually takes a different form.
“I want to solve problem [ x ]. Do you see a way to solve this problem?”
Ken
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Charles Burnette wrote:
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We all make assumptions or misunderstand something when we read ones remarks. You are doing this even now. You attack the questions, despite my admonition to interpret it only as a way think about an alternative approach to gaining knowledge when considering the full implications of an effort is not feasible. I wrote " I pose these questions to you, not as an approach I recommend, but as an alternative way to think about how to gain and generate new knowledge. I certainly wasn’t suggesting that it was possible to address your presumptive interpretation of the problem in 6 months. Just that it makes sense to start somewhere with implications for a big picture yet to to come.” I didn’t get anything back that offered a new direction, just a misinterpretation of what I tried to convey, and more detail about the status quo.
If you read Chatterjee and Coslett’s new book “The Roots of Cognitive Science” you will see how case histories in Clinical Neurology have produced major insights on how the mind works from study of as little as one patient. (Please try not to twist this around. I am just pointing to how a limited scope case can produce significant and useful information. I know it depends on the patient and the researcher and the institutions that enable the study, and the state of knowledge at the time. The book is also a condemnation of the big journals for no longer publishing case studies of merit.)
I’m asking you for a little creative thinking rather than a treatise on constraints or practices that exist.
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