>> And that's a good thing; it's a revolution.
john g marr <jmarr_at_unm.edu> wrote:
> I see an oxyoron embedded in there [albeit unintentional] ... :)
Neither unintentional nor oxymoronic; revolutions are good things,
even if the methods can be harsh, crude and imprecise.
> Yes, but humans are getting poorer at designing their particular queries.
Based on what?
> Prejudice on the part of searching humans is incerasingly distorting
> results. What do we do about that? Seriously-- we need to address the issue
> of how the data itself and the forms of its presentation affect the
> searchers.
You've got that back to front; humans should not adopt to what query
engines can understand, it's the engines that need to be better at
understanding what the humans want.
> All animals are "selfish"-- we're the only ones (so far) that can
> overcome what can be absolutely self-destructive.
What, now? As far as I can tell, all animals currently alive have to
some degree overcome a whole lot of things that would normally be
self-destructive. What's so special about us?
>> Information overload
>
> Yep. the "overstimulation" complex.
I feel you're a bit imprecise here. Stimulation has no bearing on the
problem of parsing information, and would be, at best, a secondary
problem.
> It's a brain-structure problem (just
> as it would be an architecture or software problem in computers). But
> "neuroplasticity" (as the corrrelatve of computer re-engineering) can fix
> that.
How is neuroplasticity suppose to fix the problem of information overload?
>> It's a delicate balance between too much and too little.
>
> Not really. The delicate balance is actually between levels of cognitive
> competence, which can be altered.
There's a bell curve in there that you have to pay attention to long
before you get to grade anything as competence levels, at which point
you're going down a route of empirical data matching models of human
cognition which, as Karen pointed out, is a muddled thing.
I'm assuming you mean training your mental capabilities to deal with
what is presented, as opposed to present something that require no
training. We're at opposites ends, then.
Regards,
Alex
Received on Tue Oct 08 2013 - 01:03:54 EDT