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Thinking with your hands

By Mike | April 8, 2008

One of my favorite scenes from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” is when the title characters move to Bolivia and apply to be armed guards at a (coal?) mine. The mine’s owner tells Sundance to stand and shoot a stone tossed about 10 yards away. Sundance attempts to do so, but repeatedly misses, and […]

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What is the cognitive lens?

By Mike | April 6, 2008

cognition [,käg’ . ni . sh . ən] noun - the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.

Cognition and its underlying principles are powerful tools to use in understanding and interacting with the world, and Cognitive Lens is my attempt to bring related but often isolated fields together through a cognitive perspective.

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