Bruner/Jerome

== The 1975 cognitive revolution ==
The sudden intensive departure of Jerome Bruner's articles from 1975, for example, as retrieved 2013-09-08 from Wikipedia: Jerome Bruner #Published works and listed below, may be no accident, but greatly significant as a sign of a clear-cut paradigm shift to interpretivism, namely, "cognitive revolution." 
Accordingly, the metaphor in shadow came to serve as a metaphor for the new worldview that would take seriously Taoist yin as well as yang, the implicit as well as explicit, the negative as well as positive. Hence, holism and contextualism in a way to overcome simplism and reductionism. 
The most vital socio-cultural phenomena center around human cognition and recognition of the meaning of symbolism, or significance of signification. As such, these have to do with human factors, subjectivity, metaphysics and the like that positivists and scientists used to avoid. 
More fundamentally, all the natural and cultural signs in context underlie symbolism or signification, also waiting to be interpreted in terms of significance. The variety of optical illusions and delusions and cognitive biases should be taken seriously into account so that we may well resolve human affairs, above and at all. We live our whole life by interpretivism, by interpreting the signified as well as the other signs! 
The 1975 cognitive revolution, if any, was not a paradigm shift to human-centered interpretivism, in contrast with dehumanized cognitivism aiming for full automation or "strong AI" that relates to another alleged cognitive revolution that occurred around 1957 (some two decades earlier) when the Sputnik 1 of the USSR shocked and agitated the non-Communist part of the world, especially the U.S.A. 
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