| The first notion of modern Western thought [that is being challenged today] is that the mind is very individual-centered. You study the individual; from Descartes on, that has been the model. But many people are beginning to appreciate the social aspect of mind, that mind is in many ways not just in yourself but in other people, in the human resources around you. People study teams of workers in offices, in factories, on a boat, working with computers. It turns out that the intelligence is not exclusively in the person's head, it is in all the heads working together, and people depend upon other heads to do other things. So we are moving a little bit away from the individual as the sole center of the study of mind. | |||
| p. 84 | |||
| Howard E. Gardner |
"Cognition: A Western Perspective" MindScience: An East-West Dialog Wisdom Books, 1994 |
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