Show notes
What does it mean to understand something? How do we take information and create understanding? We talk to with Stephen Anderson and Karl Fast and do our best to Figure It Out.
we talk about the challenge of making something understandable, different theories of cognition including embodied cognition, how some things we often consider wrong or mistakes are actually part of understanding.
It’s a philosophical and thought-provoking conversation.
(Listening time: 37 minutes, transcript)
Episode #242 Figure it out with @stephenanderson and @karlfast – What does it mean to understand something? How do we take information and create understanding?https://t.co/vGvQ2dMUjs pic.twitter.com/dPmxlViqlN
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References:
- Full transcript of Episode 242
- Figure it out published by Rosenfeld Media
- Illustrations from Figure it out
- Mighty minds club (Stephens community)
- Karl’s website
- Demystifying Concept Models (UX London 2010)
- Embodied cognition (Wikipedia)
- Pragmatism (Wikipedia)
- On Distinguishing Epistemic from Pragmatic Action (PDF)
- Seductive interaction design by Stephen Anderson (Amazon)
- Episode 219: Facilitating structures
- Episode 201: Consistency (Polarity mapping episode)
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