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Conversation Theory

Pask's theoretical framework characterizing cybernetic control as interactive conversation enabling distributed cognition and subversion of routine behaviors.

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  • Cognitive process spread across human and non-human agents; a goal of Pask’s and Friedman’s cybernetic diagrams.

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