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Landscape and Cognition

For a variety of reasons humans should be good at solving landscape problems. These are problems of scale, spatial relationships and change.

patterns - Wendell Berry

ecological rationality - Gigerenzer book, problem solving approaches that take advantage of the structural characteristics of the information,

heuristic devices

evidence that humans use these approaches

 

what we are good at and bad at

I'm hoping this is in Pinker and others

 

What are the salient features of complex landscapes

spatial - can learn to improve spatial awareness (Dee's reference of two days)

wayfinding

 

texture - see the description in the fragmented forest book

scales of processes/ depends on metaphors

gaps - can we really see this?

from these skills - learn how to connect between scales (Levin ****)

 

Solving complex problems in the landscape

examples - native level intelligence

examples of enhanced tools

the power and limitaions of GIS

it can't substitute for experience in physical landscapes

 

Mapping complex problems into a landscape form

analysis of complex problems is too difficult for everyone to master

using human innate talents, wetware instead of hardware and software

leaning to trust our pattern matching and other innate, sub-concious skills

 

Teaching strategies for learning about complex systems

presenting problems that map

identifying problems that don't map

this idendification process is a big challenge for me