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47 Recognizing

Recognizing is done by one of two ways of attending: not by the one that fixes, fragments and isolates, but by the other that perceives a whole from a multipoint experience of small subsymbolic features of a pattern; it needs just some of the features to see the whole pattern.

#ethics21 Week 6 thoughts

Posted on November 22, 2021 by x28

Today Stephen explicitly encouraged us to blog some thoughts how care ties into … analytics. From what he said over the years, my first thought is about the parallels between care and AI. One parallel is how the ‘One-Caring’ (as … Continue reading →

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Consciousness

Posted on November 21, 2017 by x28

Stephen Downes’s big article “Consciousness” is an incredibly rich resource. The greatest takeaway so far was the explanation of the mysterious ‘suddenness’ through recognition.
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New page: Recognizing

Posted on August 16, 2016 by x28

The new page is a remix of all my blog posts about McGilchrist’s (@divided_brain) and @Downes’ ideas on recognizing: https://x28newblog.wordpress.com/recognizing-2/

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Recognition

Posted on December 23, 2014 by x28

Gradually, Stephen Downes’ explanation of Knowledge as Recognition becomes more and more lucid. Myself, I most intensively recognized this idea in McGilchrist’s description of two different ways of “knowing”.
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Constructivist Ship In A Bottle

Posted on September 25, 2014 by x28

OK, concepts are no longer transported into the student’s brain, but only constructed there. But how does the “construction set” get into the brain? Continue reading →

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Cmap’s Fault

Posted on April 23, 2014 by x28

When I try to understand what “recognition” means, what makes “recognizing” different from just seeing the single parts, I cannot visualize this at the neural level. Rather, I need some imagination from an accessible level — from the conceptual level.
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