- [[🌲 zettels]] - Tags: [[DSynthesis Infrastructure]] - Description: - We see this in scholars' behavior during synthesis: for example, [[CLM - Scholars constantly need to reread during a literature review]] - It is possible that with good contextualizability properties, less rereading is necessary; but there is probably a base level of returning that needs to happen, since [[CLM - Synthesis is sensemaking on hard mode]] - Informally, we observe that balancing and preserving coupling/grounding between the "layers of evidence" is challenging - For these reasons, we claim that the level of contextualizability puts an upper limit on how deep/effective/rich of a synthesis can be achieved. - [[CLM - People process complex information in multiple levels and stages of processing]] - The larger point is that [[CLM - Knowledge must be recontextualized to be usefully reused]] - However, [[CLM - Specifying context for future reuse is costly]] - R-Sources: - the idea of evaluation and clear criteria for gaps is an important observation that connects with why [[context]] - Todos - [[Joel Chan]] - [[CLM - Context is necessary for reasoning under uncertainty]] - [[CLM - Knowledge is fundamentally contextual]] ###### Discourse Context - **Informs::** [[QUE - What (existing) systems facilitate individual synthesis]] - **Informs::** [[CLM - Compression is necessary for synthesis]] - **Informs::** [[CLM - Compressing complex ideas into more manageable chunks facilitates more complex thought]] - **Informs::** [[CLM - Multiplicity is necessary for synthesis]] - **Informs::** [[CLM - Universal Semantic Webs are neither feasible nor useful]] - **Informed By::** [[@granelloPromotingCognitiveComplexity2001]] - **Informed By::** [[CLM - Knowledge must be recontextualized to be usefully reused]] - **Informed By::** [[CLM - Scholars constantly need to reread during a literature review]] - **Informed By::** [[CLM - Sensemaking requires iterative loops of (re)interpreting data in light of evolving schemas]] - **Informed By::** [[CLM - Synthesis is sensemaking on hard mode]] - **Informed By::** [[CLM - Context is necessary for reasoning under uncertainty]] - **Informed By::** [[CLM - Specifying context for future reuse is costly]] - **Informed By::** [[CLM - Knowledge is fundamentally contextual]]