Replying to LO30613 --
In a message dated 10/3/2003 10:50:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mmcelroy@vermontel.net writes:
> (a) not all of our knowledge is in use in the form of actions all of the
>time and yet we still have it, and
> (b) that some of our knowledge may not be in our minds at all and may be
>recorded in written or some other liguistic form.
I certainly agree with your (a) assertion, Mark.
Our knowledge (IMHO) triggers action only when the "fact field" (all facts
that you recall, see, hear, feel, etc. at that moment) being processed by
your knowledge returns a new fact: "danger" or "opportunity".
Of course, with no observable action at all one can inventory or even
exercise one's knowledge through memories, what ifs, etc.
Not to cut to fine a point, but in (b) the knowledge could not be "mine"
until I internalize it. Your wording puts it in the domain of "ours" to
which I must agree if "ours" includes all creatures both living and
passed. But it, I believe by definition, must have been internalized by
at least one of "us."
There is a body of research referred to occasionally here which began in
educational psychology, the psychology of learning and, later, in the
design of instructional systems.
I remember a "Knowledge / Action" matrix from this body of research:
Knowledge-types were arranged along the X Axis and these were: Fact,
Concept, Procedure, Rule, Principle. (They, too, were unable to wholly
distinguish information from knowledge :-) )
The 'Y' axis (Action or Behavior) was arranged thus: Recognize, Recall,
Perform with Aids, Perform Unaided, and, I would personally add: "Create
New".
I think all the confusion comes from confusing "learning" with
"knowledge". We can learn facts, but IMHO this is not knowledge but
internalization of information. Again I assert knowledge is acting on
information - even if that action is completely internal to our thinking
and only the individual is aware of it. It seems to me we need a new word
whose definition is" That knowledge which is not information."
- Hal
Best regards,
Hal Popplewell
Chairman and CEO
AgentWare Systems, Inc.
186 East Main Street - Suite 300
Northville, Michigan 48167
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