The Indian folk tale recorded in the well-known John Saxe poem tells of six blind men, each grabbing a different part of an elephant, and describing their impression of the whole beast from a single part’s perspective. So the elephant appears to each blind man to be like a snake, a fan, a tree, a rope, a wall, a spear. As the poem concludes: “And so these men of Indostan, Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion, exceeding stiff and strong. Though each was partly right, All were in the wrong.” Although this tale suggests a general metaphor for poor collaboration and social coordination, the insinuation of blindness indicates an inability to share the common information that is normally available through visual perception. When fund...
It is a compelling idea that an image as simple as a Necker cube, or a duck-rabbit illusion, can rev...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from RE Today Services via th...
Decades ago, the sciences of mind were busy drawing insights from computer engineering. Cognitive sc...
[Extract] Originally based on a parable from India, the poem The Blind Men and the Elephant by John ...
As I started my conversation with the vast literature on collaboration, I was reminded of the fable ...
Three blind men were exploring an elephant. The first of them, who happened to reach the leg, descri...
“Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget ’ and I can ...
In the fable by Rumi, six blind men seeking information as to what an elephant looks like, lays thei...
On many of the staple measures of comparative psychology, elephants show no obvious differences from...
In non-human animals, creative behaviour occurs spontaneously only at low frequencies, so is typical...
ABSTRACT: Due to the importance of vision in human perception, different verbal behaviors are expect...
Elephants’ complex societies, well-developed communication systems, evolutionary history and close w...
On many of the staple measures of comparative psychology, elephants show no obvious differences from...
When we speak of mental images we refer to representation of objects in our mind and typically to re...
I suggest that the transformation of an artifact from an introductory-type instrument into a viable,...
It is a compelling idea that an image as simple as a Necker cube, or a duck-rabbit illusion, can rev...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from RE Today Services via th...
Decades ago, the sciences of mind were busy drawing insights from computer engineering. Cognitive sc...
[Extract] Originally based on a parable from India, the poem The Blind Men and the Elephant by John ...
As I started my conversation with the vast literature on collaboration, I was reminded of the fable ...
Three blind men were exploring an elephant. The first of them, who happened to reach the leg, descri...
“Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled ‘file and forget ’ and I can ...
In the fable by Rumi, six blind men seeking information as to what an elephant looks like, lays thei...
On many of the staple measures of comparative psychology, elephants show no obvious differences from...
In non-human animals, creative behaviour occurs spontaneously only at low frequencies, so is typical...
ABSTRACT: Due to the importance of vision in human perception, different verbal behaviors are expect...
Elephants’ complex societies, well-developed communication systems, evolutionary history and close w...
On many of the staple measures of comparative psychology, elephants show no obvious differences from...
When we speak of mental images we refer to representation of objects in our mind and typically to re...
I suggest that the transformation of an artifact from an introductory-type instrument into a viable,...
It is a compelling idea that an image as simple as a Necker cube, or a duck-rabbit illusion, can rev...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from RE Today Services via th...
Decades ago, the sciences of mind were busy drawing insights from computer engineering. Cognitive sc...