Why do we learn? In his book Human Motivation Robert E. Franken, Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, defines motivation as “the arousal, direction and persistence of behaviour.” Consider Franken’s definition – we get aroused, we work with a sense of direction, and we persist – we keep doing things, as we learn them. [...]
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Google Goes Semantic… Finally!
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, TheoriesTags: a Web of relations, Alison Gopnik, Baader Szabolcs, Curiosity, David Deutsch, David G. Myers, Douglas Rushkoff, Edge Foundation, Eric Schmidt, explanatory truth, Google 3.0, John Birtchnell, John Markoff, Linkedin Digital Media Technologies Group, machine readable information, motivation, questioning process, rich machine readable information, Robert E. Franken, semantic relationships, Semantic search, Semantic Web, Steven Pinker, third culture
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