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  1. Feb 2019
    1. executive capability

      Executive capabilities/processes compared. Latter are tied to metacognition in some learning theories. Here tacit knowledge is included in capabilities and excluded from processes (i.e. as inferior or biasing?)- if I'm reading correctly.

    2. For instance, an aborigine who possesses all of our basic sensory-mental-motor capabilities, but does not possess our background of indirect knowledge and procedure, cannot organize the proper direct actions necessary to drive a car through traffic, request a book from the library, call a committee meeting to discuss a tentative plan, call someone on the telephone, or compose a letter on the typewriter.

      Nor could I, who can do all these things, survive very long in an Australian desert - just to balance the example ;-)

  2. Oct 2017
    1. Massiveness

      Massiveness can also destroy sense of connection; like suddenly finding yourself in the middle of a busy freeway and you don't know where anyone is going or where they came from.