A Study on Intellectual Tasks Influenced by the Embodied Knowledge

摘要

I have an assumption that knowledge of the known intellectual task will similarly influence on the new one. By using origami performances, it was verified the existence of embodied knowledge of the known intellectual task made the performance of unknown similar tasks better. In this paper, I defined as embodied knowledge is an advanced technique that the body has learned by experience, and it is skilled to the extent that it does not require assistance from the outside when executing it. Experiments were carried out as the origami performance of folding cranes and phoenixes. The performance of folding phoenixes consists of the common part of folding cranes and folding phoenixes and the unique part of folding phoenixes. Because of comparing the execution time of the folding cranes with that of folding phoenixes, the following three observations were obtained. (1) If they had the embodied knowledge of folding cranes, they could finish the task of folding phoenixes more quickly than those who do not have the embodied knowledge. (2) Significant differences due to the presence or absence of the embodied knowledge were observed only in the performance of the common part. (3) Once if they have experienced to fold cranes, it was possible to complete the task of folding phoenixes even if they did not have the embodied knowledge of folding cranes. As shown in the above results, the embodied knowledge of folding cranes influenced only on the common part of folding cranes and folding phoenixes. In the common part of folding cranes and folding phoenixes, only differences due to the presence or absence of experiences were observed, and no difference was found due to the proficiency inexperience. The reason for the increase in the efficiency of the new intellectual task like the known intellectual task by the embodied knowledge is that only efficiency was increased because the efficiency of their common part was increased. Thus, we cannot conclude that experiences have played some roles in the unique part. In addition, as shown in the above results, once they have experienced to fold cranes, they will be able to obtain the knowledge of how to fold the cranes.