Cognitive Medium
- medium for thinking
- writing is one! - there's thinking by writing, and writing also enables metacognition and debugging of one's thinking by allowing one to take a "step back" and look at the process
Written music became a medium for thought, a medium which expanded the range of musical ideas a composer could have, and thus changed music itself. It's an example of a cognitive medium - a media environment to support and enable thought.
— http://cognitivemedium.com/emm/emm.html ↗
- dynamic medium seems like an obvious substrate for cognitive medium
- allows simulating and solving things visually
- thoughts can be freely recomposed and rearranged (with better history handling in software)
- ideas can be linked together to create new ideas