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Hi, Jinan, Thank you for your post. My understanding is that as children we learn at least in part by copying whoever is older that we *value* (as distinct from love) (this was written about by Albert Bandura if I remember right). That makes good sense because if an older human that is similar to us and has survived longer then copying them is a potentially good survival strategy. Thinking about your post, a question that comes to me is: IF childhood learning is only and wholly represented by us being " biologically equipped to absorb what is happening in our context and naturally it is the three-dimensional world that is being recorded. But the memory of this is held very lightly and loosely but only when the need arises to recall any specific event the recalling happens." THEN, what is the process by which we can benefit in survival terms by being able to predict things that we have not experienced? Best wishes, Terence -----Original Message----- From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Jinan K B Sent: Tuesday, 22 January 2019 5:18 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Enhanced thinking in learning and designing Students Learn From People They Love Actually, this is emotional blackmail and not really about learning. This emotional blackmail is what everyone is proposing in order to improve education. Either you shower love or you give them good marks, cheer them up.......... Please look carefully at this situation. The emotion of love is for the one who is teaching and what is being 'learned' is something else. So there is fragmentation between emotion and 'learning'. This is bound to happen when the content of what one is supposed to be learning is absent. This is precisely the problem that modernity is doing. The body is experiencing the emotion and the mind is 'learning' what is being taught. Emotion is not really connected with the content that is being learned! What is present is what we experience! We are biologically equipped to learn the real world which means we LEARN what we experience and not its description. Experience and learning are one and the same thing. So what children LEARN is THE TEACHER and the act of teaching. (remember mirror neurons) The following quote is from Jerry. The evolution of mind is a history of a selectively advantageous expanding capacity for the mental imagery of human felt-life. Included among some of the more recent advances Damasio lists are “a powerful image-based memory function capable of learning, recalling, and interrelating unique facts and events; an expansion of the imagination, reasoning and symbolic thought capabilities such that nonverbal narratives could be generated, and the ability to translate nonverbal images and symbols into coded language.” What I am saying is simple common sense. We are biologically equipped to absorb what is happening in our context and naturally it is the three-dimensional world that is being recorded. But the memory of this is held very lightly and loosely but only when the need arises to recall any specific event the recalling happens. By the by we are not biologically equipped to deal with the printed word. It has to be trained and it is not the printed word that gets recorded, unlike the way how experience itself is being recorded or stored. Jinan On 19/01/2019, Diethelm <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Interesting, reaffirming relational column by Davis Brooks about > thinking in the New York Times today: > > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/learning-emotion-education. > html > > (Some excerpts) He writes: > > “We focus on all the wrong things because we have an outmoded > conception of how thinking really works. > > “**** work by cognitive scientists like Antonio Damasio showed us that > emotion is not the opposite of reason; it’s essential to reason. > Emotions assign value to things. (my emphasis) If you don’t know what > you want, you can’t make good decisions. > > “Furthermore, emotions tell you what to pay attention to, care about > and remember. It’s hard to work through difficulty if your emotions > aren’t engaged. Information is plentiful, but motivation is scarce. > (Damasio would say feelings and emotions) > > And…..(with slight editing) > > “How would you design ****** if you wanted to put [relational] quality > at the core?” > > The last two essays I wrote: “Embodied Design Thinking,” and > “Couple-Coulor Image-Concepts in Design Thinking,” are aimed in this > same direction. In the Brooks' article, the focus is on the influence > of an enriched conception of thinking on learning. I’m exploring what > this more inclusive understanding of thinking means for design and designing. > > They essays can be found at https://uoregon.academia.edu/JerryDiethelm > > Best to all, > > Jerry > > Jerry Diethelm > Architect Landscape Architect > Planning & Urban Design Consultant > > Prof. Emeritus of Landscape Architecture > and Community Service • University of Oregon > > 2652 Agate St., Eugene, OR 97403 > > • e-mail: [log in to unmask] > • e-mail [log in to unmask] > • web: http://pages.uoregon.edu/diethelm/ > • https://oregon.academia.edu/JerryDiethelm > > • 541-686-0585 home/work > • 541-346-1441 UO > • 541-206-2947 work/cell > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD > studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Jinan, TEXT DISTORTS, DIGITAL DESTROYS, WORLD AWAKENS http://jinankb.in/ http://existentialknowledgefoundation.org/ http://rethinkingfoundation.weebly.com/ http://sadhanavillageschool.org/ https://www.youtube.com/user/sadhanavillagepune https://www.youtube.com/user/jinansvideos www.re-cognition.org https://independent.academia.edu/JinanKodapully 09447121544 ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------