2.10Projection onto a representation space
What is included on a map is the choice of the map-maker. Several sources [NOM, LTL] indicate that any transformation of reality into a symbolic representation is a PROJECTION. This transformation often acts as an abstraction, from a person’s particular viewpoint and indeed, may distort facts to fit into the model. […]
2.9 Explicit appearance
A map’s value is gained from its explicit appearance. It is open to gestalt feeling and can be usefully viewed in part or as a whole, from varying distances and it can be addressed from any starting point; the same is simply not true of a piece of writing. A piece of text […]
2.8 Structure more than content
The key word is structure. Korzybski concluded that the map was so useful simply because it retains the structure of the territory that it mimics.
Whatever the medium for the target representation, reality has to be translated in order to fit it onto a representation, if the complexity of the structure […]
2.7 Graphical representations
Graphical representations, and in particular, maps, are a rich topic for cognitive research:
Each person carries with him his cognitive field as a map of the world. He responds not to the world, but to the map. When he receives the stimulus of a communication, the meaning it has is the way it can […]
Spatial world and analogy
Adult humans have had plenty of practice in mentally modelling space and, because of this, we become adept at recognising patterns in it. So when we are presented with a conceptual instead of spatial problem, it can be both advantageous and natural for us to draw analogy and to attempt to translate […]
Text
Language, especially its permanent textual form, is a format that virtually every human has the ability to use and is undeniably powerful, emotive and expressive. Carefully selected, words can ring an air of stark truth and clarity, and can drive a deep understanding directly into the human subconscious. However to achieve the degree of expression […]
Since 2004, the terms Social Media, “Web 2.0″ and The Architecture of Participation, have been about getting the masses to provide full engagement, and are taking leaps and bounds as a dominant means to put publishing on the web into the hands of the common public.
Brought into an Enterprise context, its sister “Enterprise 2.0,” now […]
2.4 Natural conception of space
The extent of our experience thus dictates an arbitrary limit on the dimensionality that we understand. However, there is no such limit on the complexity of relationships between objects. It is these relationships that dictate the pattern of a system that we seek to comprehend, and it is these which we […]
Wikis - Making Sense out of a House of Shards(c) Martin@Cleaver.org2 December 2004
A wiki can be a posting board, knowledge base, project tracker, photo album, and discussion forum. It’s all of these, yet none alone does it justice. Even for the most experienced, a Wiki can be infuriatingly difficult to classify!
From a linguistic perspective, the […]
2.3On Space
The environment or “milieu” that we live in is partly composed of a space and as such, some of the earliest things that we need to describe during childhood exist in a spatial field. We become accustomed to understanding the spatial dimensions and become experienced at describing them. Survival, [MIM] claims, has become our […]
