Knowledge as Design

Long ago, in 1985, I found a brilliant yet relative unknown scholar, a superior observer, analyst, and synthesist in the emerging fields of cognitive science, David N. Perkins. One of the first formats I learned from Dr. Perkins for high-level cognition and meta-cognition was KNOWLEDGE AS DESIGN. I have actively used and evolved or re-created in my own ways the original KNOWLEDGE AS DESIGN format I learned directly from David N. Perkins. I can suggest no better place to start that KNOWLEDGE AS DESIGN! Along with this work, I suggest you enjoy the wry and insightful humor of David Perkin's own mind as reflected in THE MIND'S BEST WORK along with THE EUREKA EFFECT. I work in the field on intelligence (geostrategic), military psychology, cognitive psychology, and natural medicine. On countless situations, I found and continue to find when my cognitive back, so to speak, is against the wall - I find myself calling upon the cognitive format(s) inherent in KNOWLEDGE AS DESIGN and other formats for creative and critical thinking created by the fertile mind of David Perkins, educated, as well, in Artificial Intelligence at MIT. In one instance, in a combat situation, the use of David's formats for superior thinking literally saved my life. I would be delighted to correspond with other readers whose interest are in the development of new ways of thinking, the development of new ways of inventing mind, as it were, at will. I can be reached at: [email protected] A. Giannini, D.Nat.Med, Ed.M., M.A.