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Apologies for the previous post. It was not meant to be sent to the list. Todd On 21/03/13 1:21 PM, Todd Robinson wrote: > hi susan > I take this post to be a good omen !! > > Thanks for yesterday, its great to get back on focus > look forward to talking soon > t > > > On 21/03/13 11:26 AM, Keith Russell wrote: >> Dear thinkers about thinking, >> >> Every time this topic comes up, I go into the proximal state or >> intentional arc described by Merleau-Ponty. Is design thinking a >> peculiar kind of "maximal grip"? Is the "intentional arc" of one >> design thinker much the same as the "intentional arc" of another >> design thinker? >> >> cheers >> >> keith >> >> See below for a snip from: >> >> http://www.class.uh.edu/cogsci/dreyfus.html >> >> >> Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Mental Representation: >> The Relevance of Phenomenology to Scientific Explanation >> Intelligence Without Representation >> >> Hubert L. Dreyfus >> I. The Relation between Phenomenology and Neuro-Science >> >> Today I want to show that two important components of intelligent >> behavior, learning, and skillful action can be described and >> explained without recourse to mind or brain representations. To do >> this I will explain two central concepts in Merleau-Ponty's >> Phenomenology of Perception --the intentional arc and getting a >> maximal grip. The intentional arc names the tight connection between >> the agent and the world, viz. that, as the agent acquires skills, >> those skills are "stored", not as representations in the mind, but as >> dispositions to respond to the solicitations of situations in the >> world. Maximum grip names the body's tendency to respond to these >> solicitations in such a way as to bring the current situation closer >> to the agent's sense of an optimal gestalt. Neither of these >> abilities requires mental or brain representations. Rather, simulated >> neural networks exhibit crucial structural features of the >> intentional arc. Moreover, Walter Freeman's account of the brain >> dynamics underlying perception and action is structurally isomorphic >> with Merleau-Ponty's account of the way a skilled agent moves towards >> obtaining a maximum grip. >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- TODD ROBINSON Acting Director Fashion & Textiles Program Lecturer Fashion & Textiles University of Technology City Campus | Design Architecture and Building Building 6, Level 6, Room 657 e:[log in to unmask] m: +61402316436 p: 95148781 www.toddrobinson.com.au Todd Robinson UTS Street Address: UTS Faculty of Design Architecture and Building 702-730 Harris Street Ultimo, NSW Postal Address: University of Technology, Sydney P.O. Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007 Australia UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------