Mathemagenic

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In KNOWLEDGE: FRAMES & CONTEXT (about The Society of Mind’ by Marvin Minsky)

I like to think of knowledge as being stored in chunks or frames concerned with a specific subject or topic.

Minsky suggests that when you hear a story certain words or phrases resonate with your past experience and the relevant frames are excited and brought into focus. This is the point in a conversation where people chip in with their experiences or thoughts. In a presentation this is where you start to think that’s a good idea or I remember something similar myself.

As the story unfolds against your own backdrop of frames, any new knowledge or ideas it may provoke are attached to all the currently excited frames. As these frames are then stored back in your memory they take the new story with them.

Excite any of these frames later in conversation and the story comes to mind.

Now consider how difficult the proposal to ‘manage knowledge’ is when you think of the very different experience and therefore frames which exist in our staff.

This is the book to read!

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2002/09/17.html#a237; comments are here.

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