Discussion on Methodology of Science of Wisdom in Designing

Abstract

The objective of this discussion is to depict a preferable and normative science of design to understand the wisdom employed in activities where artificial things including intelligence are created. The primitive nature of designing is to device self-consciously a course of action to live well. The cognitive processes in designing are hypothetically depicted from the substantial, somatic, and conceptual aspects. With this picture, a method of understanding wisdom in designing is discussed in association with the world view of a mathematician OKA Kiyoshi. Oka claims that an individual human is living not in the material world but in the world of the individual mind and emphasizes the importance of understanding the things as living matters as well as substantial matters. This discussion is also focusing on the concept of intellect, emotion, and volition, and the concept of levels of creation of the nature, i.e., living, life, and self-consciousness of living.