The poet of cybernetics
Discusses Gordon Pask's contributions to our understanding of learning and, in particular, his insistence that its occurrence forces an observer to change the reference frame used to describe the system which may equivalently be seen as a change in the language of the system or the emergence of a metalanguage. Posh's ideas are used to discuss the distinction between the processing of continuous information and the manipulation of symbolic, or concept-based, information and their combination, as in, for example, the use of continuous heuristics to guide symbolic problem solving.
cybernetics learning language information heuristics