Meta Factors

“Meta factors” are the complex, ambiguous, and largely qualitative (or at least very tricky to quantify) factors behind our experience of everything in art, science, commerce, and civics.

Think of it as building on the field of human factors — applied not just to subjects and potential users but to the researchers and designers themselves.

It involves:

• ideas about our ideas
• methods for evaluating methods
• the discipline of developing new disciplines…

The term is new but the idea & practice are as old as philosophy. In a sense, meta factors is philosophy — stripped of its historical connotations and rendered more effective for today’s challenges & opportunities.

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