Abstracting Craft

A few things struck me about the McCullough reading. First was a quote from Polanyi - "If a pianist shifts his attention from the piece he is playing to the observation of what he is doing with his fingers while playing it, he gets confused and may have to stop." What does this say about the nature of knowledge. Where does it lay, is it in the hands or the head, or a combination of both. In the case of craft what is the difference between thinking and doing? As with all things it seems that at some point it is impossible to differentiate between the act of doing and true knowledge of how to do. So how does this fit into the realm of digital design. If in the case of craft thinking and doing are one, how do you interface with a computer to enable this type of connection?