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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington was obviously a phenomenologist. In the vein of Eddington, this book is a first stab at devising theories to account for origins and reconstructing the creature. But how do we reconstruct such a creature, how do we account for its origins and say what it has become? Based on what we know so far about the origins and development of information behavior, we have a theoretical framework with evolutionary, instinctive, socio-cognitive and lifetime developmental dimensions.
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins . At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) Space, Time and Gravitation (1920)
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Spink, A. (2010). Information Behavior Sub-processes. In: Information Behavior. Information Science and Knowledge Management, vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11497-7_7
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