I had the original idea for my essay from a discussion of bricolage in musical numbers by Jane Feuer. I hadn’t heard the term before but it sounded like something with a much wider application and so it turns out. Which is really cool. If you’re interested Feuer was taking the term from anthropologist’s description of the way folk societies have to improvise tools from objects in the environment and pointing out that while numbers like “Moses Supposes” look as though that’s what going on the routines actually rely on an enormous amount of artifice and high tech engineering to place the objects in the right place at the right time.
That idea of perceptive filters sounds familiar too. Don’t some psychologists believe that one problem autistic people have is that they don’t develop the filters most of us do and the reason for sticking to familiar routines is to reduce the constant information overload. Which also presents as simply not being able to see the wood for the trees and focussing on odd details. My kids love
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Thanks! You can see why I was reminded of it reading your essay, huh? This one's a lot less entertaining (not to mention unfinished).
If you’re interested Feuer was taking the term from anthropologist’s description of the way folk societies have to improvise tools from objects in the environment and pointing out that while numbers like “Moses Supposes” look as though that’s what going on the routines actually rely on an enormous amount of artifice and high tech engineering to place the objects in the right place at the right time.Yes, that's the source of the term in research on knowledge, cognition and decision making as well. (Er, the anthropology part, not the musical number!) In one of the sections that's not up because I don't even have a finished draft, I discuss intuition, which a lot of people think is "fuzzy" and "irrational" but is actually the result of very complex patterns of thought and action
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I had the original idea for my essay from a discussion of bricolage in musical numbers by Jane Feuer. I hadn’t heard the term before but it sounded like something with a much wider application and so it turns out. Which is really cool. If you’re interested Feuer was taking the term from anthropologist’s description of the way folk societies have to improvise tools from objects in the environment and pointing out that while numbers like “Moses Supposes” look as though that’s what going on the routines actually rely on an enormous amount of artifice and high tech engineering to place the objects in the right place at the right time.
That idea of perceptive filters sounds familiar too. Don’t some psychologists believe that one problem autistic people have is that they don’t develop the filters most of us do and the reason for sticking to familiar routines is to reduce the constant information overload. Which also presents as simply not being able to see the wood for the trees and focussing on odd details. My kids love ( ... )
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Thanks! You can see why I was reminded of it reading your essay, huh? This one's a lot less entertaining (not to mention unfinished).
If you’re interested Feuer was taking the term from anthropologist’s description of the way folk societies have to improvise tools from objects in the environment and pointing out that while numbers like “Moses Supposes” look as though that’s what going on the routines actually rely on an enormous amount of artifice and high tech engineering to place the objects in the right place at the right time.Yes, that's the source of the term in research on knowledge, cognition and decision making as well. (Er, the anthropology part, not the musical number!) In one of the sections that's not up because I don't even have a finished draft, I discuss intuition, which a lot of people think is "fuzzy" and "irrational" but is actually the result of very complex patterns of thought and action ( ... )
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