Phillip-- Speaking for myself, I have found the discussion fascinating on
many levels and having your up-close expertise vis a vis flying is a great
boon and a good lesson in why expert knowledge of systems we talk about
is exceedingly helpful.
I want to point to a particular point you make, the everyday sense of which
I fully understand, but which I think illustrates the sort of terminological
problems facing the ISCAR community which go way beyond the example.
You wrote:
All of this also raises the possibility that we can be too quick to
attribute observed actions to the effects of cultural mediation, when maybe
tool or rule mediation was more important
Its the use of "culture" in this sentence that caught my attention.
I assume by culture you mean the attribution of pilot reactions to something
of the sort "Russians are told to follow human orders over belief in equipment"
or some such generalization of the sort bandied about.
But where is culture, in this sense, in Yrjo's expanded triangle? And
aren't tools and rules constituents of culture? Might whata you are talking
about be usefully worked upon by examinging the category of rules and its
heteroglosic uses? (As in norms, values, .......)? This is not a known
answer question, but a concrete case, I hope, of the issues you raised a
few days ago.
mike
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