Incomplete ability of the Representational system

Incomplete ability of the Representational system

 

This is the sort of questions Piaget was trying to answer. "Upon what does an individual base his judgement?" Because you make judgments about things better or worse. How? How do you come up with that ability? How does that emerge? And on what basis do you make the judgments? There's a famous ruling on pornography that I believe the Supreme Court of the United States laid down, and one of the justices wrote something that's become infamous or famous depending on how you look at. He said, "I can't define pornography, but I know it when I see it." That's a notion of the incomplete ability of the representational system to represent the contents of implicit perception or the procedural system. You can know that you know something, but that doesn't mean you can describe why. It doesn't mean you can describe how you know it. You don't know how you focus your eyes. You just focus them. How do you smile? You can't describe how you do it. You can't describe the musculature. You can represent the output of the act, and you can do it [with fake smile], but you can't represent it. You're just stuffed full of skills like that, which is another example of the way that you're way more complicated than your understanding of you.

 

 

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* Reference

2017 Personality 06: Jean Piaget & Constructivism - YouTube

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