The free online magazine The Reasoner has recently published an interview with me in their February 2010 issue. Much of it is discussing argument mapping and its uses. However the first third or so of the interview covers my earlier work in the foundations of cognitive science (distributed representation, dynamical systems and such topics). Thanks [...]
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Interview in “The Reasoner”
Posted in Argument Mapping, Intelligence Augmentation, Mapping, Rationale, Reasoning on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tools for Thinking – Management Consulting
Posted in Argument Mapping, bCisive, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Draft magazine piece. Comments welcome. In the late 1950s, a young engineer by the name of Douglas Engelbart made a decision that was to have a immense effect on all of our lives. Engelbart realised that the massive challenges faced by humanity, such as hunger or nuclear war, would place unprecedented demands on our thinking [...]
The Rationale for Rationale™
Posted in Argument Mapping, Education, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning, Research on July 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Now available – the final version of my paper prepared in connection with the conference Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings in January this year. The paper is now called The Rationale for Rationale™.
"One especially ambitious new offering…"
Posted in Austhink, Cognition, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning on May 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The eminent journalist and author James Fallows writes an influential technology column, and in the latest one has discussed Rationale, in the context of software tools to help people “develop, refine, and express ideas”. I didn’t realise it upon first reading, but buried in the article is an account of the various kinds and levels [...]
Rationale: Making People Smarter
Posted in Argument Mapping, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning on May 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend I finally managed to finish off the paper, chunks of which were appearing in previous posts. It is being submitted for possible inclusion in a special issue of the journal Law, Probability and Risk, which will include papers coming out of the Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings [...]
Rationale – Why does it work? – Complementation
Posted in Argument Mapping, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning on May 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Another installment of the in-progress paper. Draft only. Comments welcome 3.2 Complementation A second theme in understanding how a tool such as Rationale can make us smarter is complementation: the tool complements our minds’ natural strengths and weaknesses. Our reasoning abilities are a function of our basic cognitive capacities, which depend in turn on our [...]
Rationale – Why does it work? – Usability
Posted in Argument Mapping, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning, Research on April 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As mentioned a few posts ago, I’ve been resisting the temptation to write in this space, due to an academic paper demanding completion. The paper is about Rationale, for a legal journal; here is the “table of contents”: Rationale: A Generic Argument Mapping Tool Introduction 1. Rationale Overview 2. Making Humans Smarter. 2.1 Educational 2.2 [...]
Argument mapping talkfest
Posted in Argument Mapping, Austhink, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale on January 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is day 1 of the Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings conference in New York. Probably never before have so many argument mapping aficionadoes been gathered at one place before. It is only a small conference – maybe 75 people total – but the concentration of interest is remarkable. [...]
What The Thinker is really thinking
Posted in Cognition, Intelligence Augmentation on January 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Watch Le Grand Content – a short, well-produced and very entertaining video. I’m not sure what it is meant to be – some kind of graphical poetry? But it strikes me as an excellent portrayal of how conscious thought unfolds when one is trying to think about something. Moments of structure mixed with free associations; occasional [...]
Exploitation, not Augmentation
Posted in Intelligence Augmentation on December 6, 2006 | 1 Comment »
A recent Boston Globe piece, Souls of a New Machine, has been getting some attention around the traps. In it Chris Spurgeon describes the interesting phenomenon in which some complex computer system takes advantage of human thinking to produce an intelligence result. For example, The Google image labeler (images.google .com/imagelabeler) is an addictive online game [...]
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