Environmental Preference in a Knowledge Seeking, Knowledge-Using Organism
Abstract If an individual from outer space were to hire a consultant in order to learn about what sort of creatures these earthlings be, the particular scholarly expertise of the consultant could have a substantial effect on the nature of the report. Given the current configuration of academic disciplines, it is not hard to imagine that a consultant affiliated with one group of scholars might emphasize such themes as sexuality, warfare, and deception. Alternatively it would not be surprising to find a consultant who would place primary emphasis on humans as processors of information, as builders of knowledge structures. Such a scholar might emphasize themes such as attention, memory, and limited processing capacity.