Hi Jerry,
>
> I find it helps to distinguish between kinds of thinking. What I mean by
> kinds of thinking is thinking that orients itself toward different ends and
> thereby takes on a character, vocabulary, concepts and processes related to
> those ends.
>
> When I am thinking like a lawyer, I am interested in resolving disputes
> related to maintaining order and certainty in societal relations. I think
> through concepts such as original intent, precedent, justice, contract,
> problem and stare decisis in order to settle differences that depend on a
> framework of order that is an embodied system of social values.
>
> When I am thinking like a designer, I am oriented toward resolving
> differences, but they are differences of a different kind. These are
> typically qualitative differences in situations that need "improvement."
> Concepts such as intentions and problems in this kind of thinking take on a
> meaning related to their resolutions as artifacts. Such artifactual
> embodiments and expressions that are the ends of this thinking can serve
> usefully as both enhancements and disruptions in an evolving culture.
>
> And when I am thinking like a physicist, or more generally like a scientist,
> I tend to eschew the interests and values that were the motivators and
> drivers in designing, including the opinions of all the churches and Fox
> News, and focus down on a strategic objectivity whose target is "how things
> are and how they work."
I like the way you explain the differences in thinking in terms of vocabulary, concepts and processes. As a feminist, I think through concepts like gendered practices and vocabulary that defaults to the masculine, and how can this be oriented to women-centred considerations.
cheers, teena
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