Posted by Denham on June 04, 2001 at 16:31:26:

In Reply to: Re: The context posted by jerome Peloquin on June 04, 2001 at 15:07:19:

Jerome,

... much of what is being called tacit or unconcious knowledge can be accessed by simple interviewing and observation techniques, along with a small amount of cognitive therapy for dummies.

Have you ever tied to capture the real tacit stuff? Things that super craftsmen and technicians just sense, feel and do?, intuitive reactions in stress situations, subtle instinctive skills of the top heart surgeon, judgements of expert soil surveyors looking at a profile, feeling the crunch beneath their boots, absorbing the 'message' from the surrounding vegetation, geology, topography??

Built expert systems for years, using psyhchological tricks to get around mental blocks, employing tools, e.g. repertoire grids & triads to elicit constructs and deep cognitive structure, playing games, video analysis, talk-back routines, walking through key senarios..... The more I delve to uncover people's knowledge, the more I realized how large that piece is I would never get.

Read Philippe Baumard, 1999. "Tacit knowledge in organizations" to get a small taste of the stuff we all know, but which we can never tell

Baumard's book review

Without a community, even the best documented cues will not work, can you read string of Inca knots? In our rush to grab intellectual property and do things by comuter, we often fail to understand and appreciate the role of situated cognition and learning which is closely tied to tacit competence. Treat to yourself to a read of "Cognition in the Wild" by Edwin Hutchins.

If you wrote an article would not some of your knowledge be encapsulated?. Is there not some knowledge resident in the fingers of a master panio player?. Can we not have distributed knowledge that resides in a group's collective memory rather than an individual mind?.

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