RE: INTRO -- FRE

jack@his.com
Fri, 20 Jan 95 23:55:41

Concerning Fred Reed's interesting post regarding "Autognomics", I feel
compelled to comment that if Autognomics is not perceived to be a mental
model, then the concept of mental model is incompletely understood. I
found much of interest in the description of autognomics, whose underlying
premises did not seem very new to me, but whose connection to other
disciplines points to the possibility of new learnings. I am disappointed
with the either/or tone of the post, which seems to suggest that those of
us who think otherwise are wrong, and which leads the author, in my
opinion, to misread the ladder of inference as a system, rather than a
possible description of process...