Posted by Mike Barker on January 22, 1998 at 11:58:34:

In Reply to: Re: Knowledge Ecology: How Tacit Becomes Explicit posted by Mezei on January 08, 1998 at 23:37:39:

Have you ever thought of how people interpret lyrics in songs. There are an infinite number of interpretations that people put on Bob Dylan songs, all claiming to be the right the one. What they're doing is putting those lyrics into their own context backed up their own experiences; then they convert the tacit meaning [ the the lyricist intended ] into the explicit [ the listeners interpretation ]. As BD says, if that what it means to you then that's fine. Isn't this the knowledge connundrum? It's the perfect example of the information [ lyrics ] remaining the same for everyone, yet they interpret it in different ways. They can explain their interpretations by references back to things that happened to them in the past but if they haven't experienced it before then it might pass them by completely. In fact, some songs are uplifting one day and downright depressing the next - how come? It's only when the songwriter themselves disects those words that we start to get a common understanding because they are the only ones who really know what the words mean. That's why telling the story behind the event is the most important bit of knowledge transfer. Developing that skill and providing the incentive to so the translation is an interesting issue. Perhaps we actually need knowledge interpreters to go around and debrief people?

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