Akshay Cadambi’s Project
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 3:25 pm
Akshay Cadambi’s Project
It is interesting to see that the intuitions behind writing and drawing dexterity is in the forethought of such an instruction.Observation is quickened; eyes are trained to see right lines and distances, thus aiding in free-hand drawing and writing; while the hand and wrist muscles, being used for a definite purpose, unconsciously become obedient assistants.
Ability to solve new problems is important to economic growth. The worst education systems resort to rote memorization of facts, something that computers can do. This article is a very detailed account of the ramifications of having such a system....cognitive complexity arises in solving new problems—problems the “rules writers” didn’t anticipate. In these situations, the human mind’s flexibility becomes very important. Tasks involving innovation and design fit this description, but tasks in many other jobs raise new problems as well.
Recognizing someone’s face is a classic example of unconscious cognition. We don’t have to think about it. Faces just pop into our minds. If you take a pen and paper and write down and write down in as much detail as you can what your person looks like, describe his/her face. What colour is his/her hair? What was he/she wearing? . . Believe it of not, you will now do a lot worse at picking that face out of a line-up. This is because the act of describing the face has the effect of impairing the otherwise effortless ability to subsequently recognize that face.
"...facilitator educators contribute to the production and reproduction of facilitators in three ways. First, facilitators can be encouraged to practice with discursive consciousness, which means they can give a coherent explanation for the things they do. Second, facilitators can operate at the level of practical consciousness, which means that they know tacitly how to teach but may have difficulty articulating or describing the reasons for their actions. Finally, in the lowest level of practice, unconsciousness, a facilitator is not able to articulate the rationale for his or her actions."
This back and forth in the menagerie of definitions is what lead me to decide to let the definition of intuition that befits this project evolve during the course of investigation; let it be intuitively understood, so to speak.(i) unjustified true belief not preceded by inference (i.e., a hunch), a sense Rorty claims to be philosophically uninteresting;
(ii) immediate knowledge (without inference) of the truth of a proposition, such as knowledge of self-evident or synthetic a priori truths;
(iii) immediate knowledge (without definition) of a concept; and
(iv) non-propositional knowledge of an entity, which knowledge may be a necessary condition for, but not identical with, intuitive knowledge of the truth of propositions about the entity in sense (ii).