our society remains mired in a brainbound approach to cognition; our activities at school and at work still treat thinking as the manipulation of abstract symbols inside individual heads. We are asked to produce facts (on tests, in reports) without the presence of a person to edify. We make arguments (write essays, author memos) without the presence of a person to debate. We are asked to set information out (log entries in a knowledge management system), or take information in (read manuals and instructions), without the presence of a person with whom to trade stories.
