Where would you situate "critical thinking," as classically defined and understood: would this simply be another term for the higher level systems judgment you are stressing here? Or do you see it as a distinct local mode/move like those other twelve? I'm also surprised "computational thinking" didn't appear on that list as it seems to be coming into vogue these days.
I’d treat “critical thinking” as a quality control layer inside several of the twelve modes, not a separate mode of its own. It sharpens whatever frame you’re in. The “missing mode” I’m calling systems judgment sits one level up: it’s what decides which frame to use, when to switch, and how to reconcile conflicting outputs.
Thanks. I like that - I'll have to chew on it a little. I was thinking of critical thinking as something operating more at the metalevel, but maybe you're right. In that sense it's even the opposite: embedded as a general process within other ways of thinking.
The “missing mode” I’m calling systems judgment is that meta-layer: not another item on the list, but the capacity to pick the right mode at the right level of the system, and reconcile them when they point in different directions.
I like that way of putting it, and I almost see it in reverse. Causal thinking is essential, but in this piece I’m treating it as one of the “local moves” you can make once you’ve chosen a frame. Systems thinking is the wider stance that decides which causal story even makes sense, what’s inside the boundary, which feedback loops matter, and where in the system the problem is actually sitting.
Where would you situate "critical thinking," as classically defined and understood: would this simply be another term for the higher level systems judgment you are stressing here? Or do you see it as a distinct local mode/move like those other twelve? I'm also surprised "computational thinking" didn't appear on that list as it seems to be coming into vogue these days.
I’d treat “critical thinking” as a quality control layer inside several of the twelve modes, not a separate mode of its own. It sharpens whatever frame you’re in. The “missing mode” I’m calling systems judgment sits one level up: it’s what decides which frame to use, when to switch, and how to reconcile conflicting outputs.
Thanks. I like that - I'll have to chew on it a little. I was thinking of critical thinking as something operating more at the metalevel, but maybe you're right. In that sense it's even the opposite: embedded as a general process within other ways of thinking.
I miss „systems thinking“. maybe „causal thinking“ includes it
The “missing mode” I’m calling systems judgment is that meta-layer: not another item on the list, but the capacity to pick the right mode at the right level of the system, and reconcile them when they point in different directions.
I like that way of putting it, and I almost see it in reverse. Causal thinking is essential, but in this piece I’m treating it as one of the “local moves” you can make once you’ve chosen a frame. Systems thinking is the wider stance that decides which causal story even makes sense, what’s inside the boundary, which feedback loops matter, and where in the system the problem is actually sitting.