| Topic: | Re:Re:Proposal for Refinement of distinction between modeling and applications |
| Posted by: | nj |
| Date/Time: | 06/01/2003 23:36:54 |
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Hello, Dr. Grinder. In the post that this post replies to, you wrote: "Afterwards, we excitedly decided to pass the task of continuing (and deepening) the patterning we had been exploring by assigning the task to some of our students. In the period that ensued, we were amazed by the inability of our students to maintain the distinction between the processes by which these various prompts were processed and the near compulsion of the students to seize upon the prompts themselves as conscious points of reference - that is, content that offered the illusion of stability. We joked among ourselves at many points in the activities that at least we had discovered that our students were not capable of consistently distinguishing between form (or process) and content." which I interpret to mean: "Later we asked the students to ask each other to comment on their own internal experience. Our students treated the questions given to them as if the suppositions embedded in the questions, and the choice of words used for the questions, actually literally described their own mental experience." That would be like someone telling me that I have a mental disease, say obsessive-compulsiveness, and me responding with a description of my symptoms, telling that someone only those parts of my mental function that could be interpreted as symptoms of my disease. -nj |