Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is a basic article that makes a low level point as stated in the title. It's a useful frame, however, to think about the concept of 'decision-making' in general. This article is fairly equivocal about what constitutes 'decision-making', including such things as: discriminating colour, navigating mazes, solving problems, manipulating objects, and more. Normally we think of 'decision-making' as 'making a choice', but the reading here seems also to include creative and imaginative tasks. I don't think the phrase 'decision-making' is really adequate here, even though it does provide a handy intuitive basis to divide people into classes: those who decide, and those who do.

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