Hurchins

From: Mike Cole (mcole@weber.ucsd.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 09:25:19 PDT


Paul-
  Yes, bringining in Hutchins seems very helpful to me, perhaps
my ideas have grown up in his orbit. I wonder how Hutchin's
would characterize development from system changes of other
kinds?
mike
I'm thinking again of Hutchins'
account. He talked about communication and learning as the "propagation of
representational state across a series of media," a propagation that he
wants to see not as moving coded information across boundaries but as
"processes of entrainment, coordination, and resonance among elements of a
system that includes a person and the person's surroundings." (quotes from
pages 117 and 290). As I understand his position, the organism and varied
artifacts do not disappear, but remain, and different media have different
properties that take up, transform, sometimes act on representational
states in different ways.nt media have different
properties that take up, transform, sometimes act on representational
states in different ways.



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