User:Pierre-Alain Gouanvic/PAG Proposal
Recruitment, localization, and a new oral tradition
These three interlocking proposals reinforce each other.
Recruitment, localization, and a new oral tradition
The Citizendium is about bringing together different teachers and learners to enable them to communicate with each other, exchange their roles, to produce a coherent discourse that subsumes subspecialities and common assumptions.
Hyperlinks, in Citizendium, must allow transdisciplinary learning; each article should meet the extraordinary challenge of being accessible to all citizens, a feat only achievable through ample, concerted, horizontal communication between articles.
Localization, recruitment, and a new oral tradition
What is the difference between inter-language translation and knowledge translation?
According to several thinkers in neurocognitive sciences, knowledge proceeds through embodied simulation, a process taking place in several neural assemblies that behave similarly whether the person is performing and action, an utterance, a meaningful gesture and when this person watches, listens or imagines (with the help of some external cues) another person doing the same. These neural assemblies are called mirror neurons, and in some cases echo neurons and empathy neurons).[1] Against the solipsistic tendencies of the Western philosophic tradition, thinkers interested in the mirror neurons system argue that the innate ability of humans and primates to stage oneself and others underlie learning; the amazing ability of neonates to mimic adult's gestures, showed by Meltzoff in the early '70s, explains how each personal experience of meaning, is translated from one to the other.
Mirror neurons are the Rosetta stone of communication. Brain areas devoted to tool manipulation, in primates (including humans) and areas devoted to language overlap.[2]
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A new oral tradition: strategies for recruitment and localization
Stevan Harnad [3]
References
- ↑ Gallese, Vittorio (2004) Intentional Attunement. The Mirror Neuron system and its role in interpersonal relations
"I will show that the same neural circuits involved in action control and in the first person experience of emotions and sensations are also active when witnessing the same actions, emotions and sensations of others, respectively.I will posit that the mirror neuron systems, together with other mirroring neural clusters outside the motor domain, constitute the neural underpinnings of embodied simulation, the functional mechanism at the basis of intentional attunement."
- ↑ Iacoboni M, Molnar-Szakacs I, Gallese V, Buccino G, Mazziotta JC, Rizzolatti G (2005). "Grasping the intentions of others with one's own mirror neuron system". PLoS Biol. 3 (3): e79. DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030079. PMID 15736981. Research Blogging.
- ↑ Harnad, S. (2003) Back to the Oral Tradition Through Skywriting at the Speed of Thought. Interdisciplines.