KNOWLEDGE AND PROBLEM SOLVING
A critical review of selected topics
The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between problem solving capabilities and knowledge. The plan of the research will be to set forth the fundamental tenets of both the realm of problem solving and that of the ways in which the mind, as an element of both being and body, absorbs and transmits knowledge, and then to discuss, with appropriate reference to selected authoritative sources, the nexus of the mind's product, knowledge, and the uses to which one may put it with reference to resolving contradictions or problems one encounters.
A number of theories of the relationship between mind and body on one hand, and between mind and mental activity which may be translated into somatic action on the other. Hampden Turner's view of the nexus between mind and body appears to be that it implies the connection between knowledge and problem solving. In this regard, he places the processes of the mind on a gradually expanding range of mental hierarchy, in which at the first level the mind functions as a simple perceptual biological organ and by the ninth level, having integrated biology with psychology, it embraces a full range of psychobiological and psychosocial capabilities that allow it to extend into the external world of culture and myth. The approach is frankly imagistic, to the degree that Hampden Turner sees the mind as capable of creatively finding relationships between its noumenal processes and the phenomenal world. It follows that the mind can project itself into concrete forms and content in the phenomenal world. One level of mental capability does not necessarily exclude the other, by Hampden Turner's lights, although he is careful to distinguish his approach from that of behaviorists, whom he describes as "anti imagists . . . who exclude themselves" by their evident assertion that th...