Posted by Reilly Atkinson on March 31, 2001 at 17:07:12:

In Reply to: Re: The One Minute Knowledge Manager posted by Mezei on March 30, 2001 at 12:05:15:

Don -- How do we think? Complicated question. The neurophysiologists are working hard at that -- at least they have demonstrated that Left Brain -- Right Brain is a vast oversimplification, in spite of the phrase's harmless presence in the vernacular -- the phrase is not without its metaphorical value.

As I have in the past, I strongly suggest a careful read of Hadamard's The Psycholgy of Mathematical Invention -- the first successful highly empirical attempt to understand thinking as a conscious and an unconscience act. The dynamic you mention was discussed in this book in detail some sixty years ago.

And then, to illustrate and research the notion of multiple intellegences, and hence multiple modes of thinking, there Howard Gardner's books, Multiple Intellegences and Creating Minds.

In these books you can find right examples of the interplay between tacit and explicit, terms not particularly associated with the more empirical approaches to brain science. That of course has something to do with the fact that tacit and explicit are simply two extremes of a continuum scale. To most of us, the knowledge of how to breath is tacit; to a highly skilled yoga expert such knowledge is quite explicit. In fact, I am increasingly of the mind that the tacit-explicit description is much the same as Freud's unconscious - conscious dimension, and thus is, perhaps, another case of KM reinventing the wheel.

As a consequence of a lot of hard nosed research as well as of occasional visionary thinking, we do know a great deal of thinking. Don't forget Freud's The Psychopathology of Everday Life (mistakes and all that), to my mind perhaps his most significant book.

Regards,
Reilly

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