Needs and Wants
It seems easier to accept that our brain-bodies need but harder that that
they are independent and non interactive sources of want. I need to eat but
I want coq au vin and much prefer it to tripe. Not to mention that what to
have for dinner is often a serious negotiation.
So perhaps it is a fact that it is really our partners that make the
decisions ³long before our minds get to know about them.²
And the fact that an actual conversation about preference can and does take
place is real time is a fact, including fictional responses such as
Melville¹s Bartleby, the Scrivener¹s, ³I¹d prefer not to.²
Jerry
On 3/13/13 8:15 AM, "Terence Love" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So, you are right, the current state of play is we still need to build
> theories for design methods that take into account new insights about the
> fact that our bodies make decisions long before our minds get to know about
> them and that our reasoning and memories are modified by our bodies to suit
> what our bodies want whilst giving our apparently conscious 'selves' the
> belief that we thought of things, made decisions, were creative/intuitional
> etc .
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