Master-apprentice Knowledge sharing

I started to investigate the London Taxi Drivers ‘Knowledge’. I used them in a conference once and had some vague notion of how the Knowledge was obtained but when I looked into it it turns out that no one has got it in less than two years and the hypo-campus of a London taxi driver is significantly enlarged over other human beings. It takes that time for the brain and the body to co-evolve to allow the knowledge to emerge.

From that, I spent a lot of time looking at apprentice schemes, in particular, the highly ritualised medieval craft halls and the criticality of physicality to knowledge not just the cognitive started to drive home.

It was also increasingly obvious that narrative forms in society acted as a constraint on what people would believe – that came from the counter-terrorism work in DARPA and elsewhere. Material Engagement Theory was a revelation and so many more ideas all developed in academic silos, all of which needed to be synthesised and I am still working on that.