Cogito ergo sumus! » A review of Ed Hutchins Cognition in the Wild.

There is an old and inevitable feud every sailman has lived through, and that is the one that pits the skipper in the breeze, mist and cold of the cockpit against the navigator, down in the cabin, slighly nauseated, looking over the chart and leafing through the Nautical Instructions. “The buoy should be there straight ahead and the tower on starboard” claims the navigator, cursing the lack of faith and the poor eyesight of the skipper; but the skipper detects no buoy at all and cannot take this slim rock battered by the surf for the tower of the Nautical Instructions, and she too curses the bookisk knowledge and arrogant superiority of the navigator stuck in the cabin comforting himself with arithmetics and brandy...