Karl Fast

@jarango This claim would be a good one for Long Bets with a bit more specificity longbets.org

"Classification is not a computationally solvable problem." — Andreas Resmini #IAC24

@jarango Or as Rodney Brooks famously wrote "The world is its own best model. It is always exactly up to date. It always contains every detail there is to be known." Brooks, R. A. (1990). Elephants don’t play chess. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 6(1–2), 3–15. doi.org/10.1016/S0921-…

“If we could say anything about everything in our [ontological] model, it wouldn’t be a model — it would be the world.” — Sharon Stern #IAC24

ICYMI: Later this year, @KarlFast and I are teaching a #PKM workshop. We'll show you how to use @obsidianmd to get your information under control. More details coming soon, but for now you can sign up to the wait list here: tally.so/r/mVjWpE #ToolsForThought #SecondBrain

@anniemurphypaul I'd point you to "Inside the Box" by Boyd & Goldenberg because it runs against prevailing wisdom. It argues that creativity happens when you work within constraints (not blue-sky thinking) and there are consistent patterns to generating creative ideas. amazon.com/Inside-Box-Cre…

What's your favorite book about creativity? Building my library . . .

Always nice when someone reads your book (admittedly, a long book) and wants to read it again: "I found the ideas the authors explored so full of possibility that I know I’ll be back for a second reading." tangleandflow.substack.com/p/recent-readi… Glad you enjoyed it @catasterist

@jarango @anniemurphypaul The scientific basis on the benefits of walking - cognitive, creative, emotional, etc - are well covered by Shane O'Mara in his 2020 book "In Praises of Walking: A new Scientific Exploration" amazon.com/Praise-Walking…

Attn @anniemurphypaul @karlfast

@Stonehippo @informed_life Thanks for listening. Glad you found it so interesting. To learn more about this view of mind I always urge people to read "The Extended Mind" by @anniemurphypaul And then, maybe, my co-authored book "Figure It Out" bit.ly/fiobook for implications to design

@LeonisCatulus13 @jmspool You're welcome. Many philosophers have argued for this viewpoint for centuries. Many scientists have explored this idea seriously and the evidence keeps building. Parts are still contentious, but core thesis seems clear. STRONGLY recommend "The Extended Mind" by @anniemurphypaul

The separation between our brain (our thoughts) and our body (our actions) is not as clear-cut as we think. In this podcast, @karlfast explains why this deserves so much more attention from designers. theinformed.life/2021/08/29/epi…

@x28de @stephenanderson @cwodtke Also appreciate pointing to The Extended Mind by @anniemurphypaul. I've been waiting 20 years for a book on extended, embodied, distributed cognition that I can recommend to a wide audience (ie: non-academic). Annie's book is exactly that. And a useful companion to our book.

My critique of @karlfast, @stephenanderson and @cwodtke's book "Figure it out" x28newblog.wordpress.com/2022/03/25/fig… : It's a wonderful explanation of how understanding works, 1/3

@x28de @stephenanderson @cwodtke Thanks for writing your critique of the book (and for reading). Digital tools are often clunky compared to physical materials. Yet physical doesn't unlock everything either, as you note in comparing digital/analog whiteboards and stickies. Major design challenges abound.

@jarango Leidy Klotz has scientifically studied the benefit and challenge of "subtracting". Research shows we default to adding. Subracting requires conscious effort. This interview is a good overview. preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/0…

I heard this advice in a podcast, and it resonated with me. Paraphrasing: Consider whatever you want to say, and ask yourself: how could you say it simpler?

@cwodtke I kind of figured you at least knew of it. Mentioned in case you hadn't. And Nguyen is at least worth a listen. After interview you could try this paper which is the theme of his book doi.org/10.1215/003181…

@karlfast I own it physical and electronic. I wish he'd make a deck.

Who is doing the most intriguing research in game academia today? Game studies, HCI, game design or other….

@cwodtke The philosopher C. Thi Nguyen. He has developed a theory of games based on agency, from which he extends into critiques of gamification, why people fall for cults and conspiracy theories, and more. See his interview with Sean Carroll preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/1…

@cwodtke @melbity Thoughts on usage rates. I haven't actively promoted it. Lacks people to champion it. Competes with lots of frameworks. UXers face daily reality of getting design shipped. Helps if you grok embodiment and few do. More value in future with emerging tech that uses body, space, etc

@karlfast @melbity My medium article that refers to it might be the largest audience exposure, then...

I'm working on a controlled vocabulary for design practices for a class. What do YOU call when you read a interview transcript and pull out insights often put on post-its (sometimes in a spreadsheet.) I've heard it called "encoding" but what else? And is encoding even accurate?

@cwodtke @melbity Your article could be the largest (so thanks). Book has good reception, but it's a big book and heavy lift.

@emalone @cwodtke @melbity Agreed. Contextual inquiry was her attempt to rebrand phenomenology to get it accepted by HCI. So strongly yes in that sense. Yet UX (and society) is still deeply rooted in computational theory of mind even as evidence and utility of embodied/extended/distributed mind has shot up

@cwodtke @melbity I haven't a clue. I use it for analyzing behaviour and thinking about my own cognition. But I haven't taught the framework for a few years. Nor have I developed it further than the original paper (in an obscure journal) or the book version (of which it is a small part).

@karlfast @melbity How many people use this framework?

@cwodtke @melbity From my framework of epistemic actions, I would likely describe is as a sequence: annotating (flagging individual passages), cloning (duplicating items), and then rearranging mixed with chunking (to identify patterns). The qual research literature calls the first part encoding.

@melbity Ah, you must be a @karlfast fan…

@memneon @anniemurphypaul You're welcome and ditto. I tend to view the science here as emerging, not yet settled, but compelling. To what degree is it a correction to the brainbound computational theory of mind is the open question.

@karlfast @anniemurphypaul Sound advice! I've downloaded a sample of Annie's book and will certainly buy it if I'm persuaded to read on. Your book looks very interesting too and I really appreciate your measured and civil approach to discussing the issues I've raised 🙂

You ARE your body. To say that “you” use your body to help “you” think is to fall into the trap of Cartesian dualism.