Thank you Asta, these refereces are fantastic!! I completely agree with
you that this is an area where a common taxonomy is needed, and where the
approaches migh diverge of converge depending on the discipline you are
comming from.
I'm taking a look to your suggestions, and I really appreciate it.
Have a nice day,
Best regards.
2014-10-02 5:05 GMT-04:00 Asta Raami <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hi Priscila,
>
> You might find useful reading some texts by Katherine Hayles where she is
> talking about the collective nonconscious and the cost of consciousness.
> According to her, understanding and cognition about oneself is like any
> shared knowledge building, it comes out of the interaction with the
> environment, which is not limited to human unconscious but includes
> environment in large, including technology.
>
> She also argues that the human consciousness aims at constant coherence,
> therefore even the trivial and everyday situations are screened to fit the
> customary expectations. This is worth conscidering when researching users
> intuition. Sometimes the requirement of this coherence leads to a
> situation, where consciousness edits and modifies reality to fit personal
> expectations, on a cost of reality, by misinterpreting anomalous or strange
> situations.
>
> These arguments have been very useful to me with my intuition research
> over the past seven years. Although my focus has been on the application
> and development of intuition in the creative process, i.e. how designers
> can better tap and benefit their intuition, it overlaps with some of the
> issues you are handling.
>
> At the moment, when handling the faculties of unconscious (including the
> processes or nonconscious as a wider phenomenon), the concepts, vocabulary
> and models presented are incomplete, they vary depending on the domain and
> are even contradicting. This has led to a situation where there does not
> exist any shared taxonomy over the area. The more I have oriented myself to
> the topic of intutive faculties of human mind, the more multidimensional it
> has become. In nonconscious (or unconscious) there are many aspects we are
> not able to understand at the moment, like pre-reflective processes,
> pre-sentiments or how we can intuitively know something that "we possibly
> should not know". All this happens in the unconscious faculties, which --
> most likely -- are not limited to human brain or even to skin.
>
> I am not quite convinced that with the questionnaire you are able to tap
> your research question, since the phenomenon (unconscious/nonconscious) is
> somehow beyond our current understanding. With designers, I have faced the
> challenge that many of these nonconscious (unconscious) processes - even if
> being partly conscious - are extremely hard to "crab" in the first place
> and very difficult to verbalize -- before even being able to share them.
>
> Anyway, I hope these references help. As I mentioned you earlier, the
> research made with Nobel laureates opens up the multidimensionality of
> unconscious/subconscious/nonconscious especially the book by Evelyn Fox
> Keller.
>
> Hayles, N. K. (2014). Cognition Everywhere: The Rise of the Cognitive
> Nonconscious and the Costs of Consciousness. New Literary History, 45(2),
> 199–220. doi:10.1353/nlh.2014.0011
>
> Keller, E. F. (1983). A feeling for the organism: the life and work of
> Barbara McClintock. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman.
>
>
> Good luck with your work! It is an important area you are researching.
>
> BR, Asta
>
>
> Asta Raami
> Doctoral Candidate, designer, M.A.
> Aalto University
> School of Arts, Design and Architecture
> Department of Media
> tel. +358 50 56 26 555
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> PL 31000, 00076 Aalto
>
>
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