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That's the general truth of perception for humans.
Marketing pros use this coupled with demographics.
Some semiotics sites take this up specifically as
part of message exchange analysis. HumanML works
by abstracting away all of the property types that
shape the perception and encoding (in the Mally
sense) of a 'human' communication where the human
is a Mally abstract type. Only lately did I
find Mally, but the distinctions are illuminating.
I suspect that had he not later become a National
Socialist, we would hear more about his work, but
that is also a property of messaging: the irrelevant
or distracting aspects of a source.
http://mally.stanford.edu/distinction.html
The tool absolutely shapes the way we think about
topics, but moreover, the communication exchange
itself and in any system that includes feedback,
is an important mechanism to analyse since it can
be a powerful source of miscommunication or serendipity.
Do you think cave drawings would be more informative
if the cave man could have rendered them in 3D or even
good 2D perspective? Would they be better art? Is
it useful or informative to separate the artistic
aspects from the informative aspects? Is it misleading
to do that? IMO, style counts and what is achievable
in style is very much related to the tool. Otherwise,
wah-wah pedals wouldn't exist.
len
From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:jonathan.robie@datadirect.com]
I think of cognitive style as the way in which a person perceives available
information, which affects teaching and learning.
David Shapiro, in Neurotic Styles, gives an example something like this:
suppose a conductor, a recording engineer, a music historian, a composer,
and a flute player are all listening to the same recording of the
Brandenburg Concerto #2. They may be hearing very different aspects of the
performance. In the book, he goes on to describe how neurotic styles of
information processing can lead people to experiencing very different
realities.
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