Posted by Jack Vinson on January 02, 2002 at 14:20:37:

In Reply to: is the relationship between knowledge and emotions a missing link? posted by Riva Gianluca on December 20, 2001 at 11:41:20:

Riva,

Interesting topic, but there are already a huge pile of subjects above this one on the board, so I don't know that anyone will even see this reply. Of course, knowledge generation has something to do with emotions of the person (or people) generating the knowledge.

I wonder if the idea of context would be helpful as a guide. Not only can we ask meta-questions (about knowledge artifacts) like

When was this created?

Why this created?

To what does this apply?

We can also begin to think about questions like,

Was this generated at a time of high/low stress?

Does the author feel a strong connection to the knowledge artifact? (emotional connection)

Now, I don't know that we can ask these questions directly, but some knowledge elucidation techiniques could include feelers for this type of information. And then we could make use of the "meta data" for future decision making.

Happy new year!

Jack

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