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Knowledge as the Property of the Collective| old_uid | 10577 |
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| title | Knowledge as the Property of the Collective |
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| start_date | 2011/12/14 |
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| schedule | 17h-19h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | amphi A.042 |
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| summary | I have tried to classify tacit knowledge into three types. Two of these, relational tacit knowledge and somatic tacit knowledge, can sometimes be made explicit, either by changing our social relations, by expressing ourselves in ways that enable a bridge of understanding to form between one person and another or by building machines that mimic what we do. The third kind of tacit knowledge cannot be made explicit – at least not in the foreseeable future. This is what I call ‘collective tacit knowledge’. Collective tacit knowledge is the understanding that enables us to follow rules without knowing the rules of their application; it underpins the ability to perform polimorphic actions as in addition to mimeomorphic actions. Collective tacit knowledge is acquired through embedding in society but we do not really understand how. Cats and dogs and other entities cannot acquire it so there is a clear difference between humans and other entities (a position I refer to as ‘Social Cartesianism’). The most parsimonious way to think about humans is as parasites sucking the blood of collective tacit knowledge from the societies in which they are embedded; take them away from society and they lose their abilities. |
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| responsibles | Rebuschi |
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