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March 15 - March 24, 2019
ISBN 9781090585783 Third Edition. Copyright © John Evans 2019.
Thinking Fast and Slow),
This is very tiring, but has the advantage of making me a little less prone to the passive acceptance of dominant text-born orthodoxies, and a bit more likely to notice and question prevailing assumptions.
I went back to my neural network simulations, because I wanted to understand how I learn, how I had managed to make sense of so many different aspects of the world,
convey the desired meaning with sufficient precision,
This is not done to be annoying; it is done to enhance the meaning of the text.
entity-relationship diagram as a tool for explaining and structu...
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Systems/ Network Thinking for Wicked Problems.
Figure 1.1 We cannot know reality directly.
Figure 1.2 The changes that came with agriculture.
Figure 1.3 The problems of wealth.
Figure 1.4 Plato’s transcendental pyramid.
Figure 1.5 Plato’s pinnacle on Aristotle’s base.
Figure 1.6 Layers of Enlightenment - Science and Technology.
Figure 1.7 Old Linear vs New Loops
Figure 1.8 Maxwell's analysis of Steam Engine Regulators.
The survival of our ancestors depended on both I-think and Groupthink. As a consequence we have evolved the ability to do both.
Moral Foundations Theory. researchers carried out large cross-cultural
cognitive immune system
perceived threats.
perceptual distortions and...
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conflict esca...
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Figure 1.9 Changing Group Membership as we Develop Cognitively and Morally.
Memetic Tribes.
They define a memetic tribe as a group of agents with a meme complex, or memeplex, that directly or indirectly seeks to impose its distinct map of reality—along with its moral imperatives—on others.
sacred, non-negotiable, values,
Figure 1.10 Causes and Common Properties of Memetic Tribes.
They (in Japan) came up with some great concepts such as;
Cognitive Feedback Loop
So what do we want – simplistic manipulative influential stories, or big picture holistic systemic dynamic understanding?
If we instituted a ‘systems’ literacy hour in our schools, there is a real chance that we could significantly improve humanity’s (individual and communal) systemic thinking and communication ability, and that would be a great help in overcoming the problems of runaway groupthink, and over simplistic grand narratives.
The Tree of Knowledge has Biological Roots.
European cultures
enables us to construct dynamic predictive model...
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what we now know about how the brain’s neural networks work, how they learn, how they trap their experiences of the external world and construct maps, models, meanings and systems of values.
Critical Thinking
D.I.K.U.W.
Understanding – is a feeling of (deep (or) superficial) coherence – consistent with your current schema – a plausible story – lots-of-dotsjoined – no anomalies – useable as it is - no need for further attention.
Games – humans play lots of different thinking games. Each game has its own socially agreed rules for what to pay attention to, what to ignore, what’s important and what is not, what moves and transformations are allowed, how to explain things to different audiences, rights, rituals punishments, etc.
Graphical Thinking is a graphical system for documenting, modelling and exploring your thinking about the dynamics and deep structure of any situation.
https://www.goalcast.com/2018/03/26/15-c-s-lewis-quotes/c-s-lewis-quote1/
Knowledge – see D.I.K.U.W
Paradigm
Semantic
Synthesis (paired with analysis) - put it back together – the recombining of separate parts or elements to form a complex whole.
Systems Psychology.
The Overton Window – places ideas/ models on a continuum of social acceptability, for a given group, at a given time.
Thinking in triplet-form see page 215
Understand – to stand under the next level up.
Maybe we could start to discriminate between the words that are still connected to their ancient shared meanings,
