Category: "Cognition"
Wise Paraphrase
Perhaps an unsurprising source for something like this, but sometimes it is necessary to skip the political correctness and say exactly what you mean. I am sure that I have at least mentioned Dunning-Kruger before - the problem with something like that is that it seems like high falutin' mumbo jumbo to the ears of many people - so perhaps it is better coming from the mouth of John Cleese.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Complexity, Decision Making, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
The Logical Endpoint of Usandthemism
As you will have noticed - assuming you have read any previous posts - the notion of us vs them has been a recurrent topic in recent posts - and actually it goes back a long way in the posts in terms of the way in which I see the world and how we each "belong" to different groupings - often arbitrarily and fleetingly - sometimes quite deliberately and long term - and occasionally permanently due to "force of circumstances.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Complexity, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
On Observing Reality
Reality TV shows are anything but. They are sold to you as good viewing because, unlike soaps or crime series etc., you are seeing "real life" unfold in front of your eyes. However, if it really were real life (and there have been some so-called "slow TV" shows made that could claim that) then the vast majority of the programme would be dull and unwatchable (always assuming that any show of this genre can claim otherwise 
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Categories: News, Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Knowledge Management, Complexity, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Going Right Back To The Beginning
Almost nine years ago now since I started this blog - although I had been blogging on my work intranet for a few years before that. I decided that now is a good time to recap on the raison d'etre of what I am writing here.
Categories: Welcome, Philosophical, Complexity, Learning, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Face It - You Don't Know
I am no expert, but I suspect that those that control the press (these days I guess it should be "the media" to be more inclusive) have always been viewed with a certain amount of suspicion by some elements of the populace - for all sorts of different reasons. This, of course, has come to a head in a big way in modern day USA where the "fake news media" are regularly blamed for many things.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Complexity, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Thickening up Facebook
Its a common complaint and a justified one in my opinion that Facebook has too much "junk" and not enough content. I have been challenged over recent days over what I could do about that and this is my first attempt at formulating those thoughts.
Categories: Philosophical, Fun, Systems Thinking, Knowledge Management, Web, Friends, Complexity, Learning, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Recognition Comes Too Late
One thing that I used to dread when I was working was someone asking me "what do you do at work then"? I suspect that I must have written about this somewhere, but the answer "I do modelling" is perhaps the most accurate and yet least informative one that I could give. Suddenly "modelling" is becoming quite the in-thing.
Categories: Systems Thinking, Complexity, Decision Making, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
This Time It Wasn't a Butterfly
Its Chaos Theory time. No - not when everything goes awry - although given the situation in the world today that could well be true(-ish). I'm talking about the mathematical version of chaos - small changes in initial conditions make huge differences in outcomes - another subject that I have talked about often. Its most 'famous' instantiation is perhaps Lorenz's "Butterfly Effect" - but as the title says we cannot blame the butterfly this time - or perhaps, more correctly, it is likely that no butterfly was involved - we cannot be sure.
Categories: Systems Thinking, Complexity, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Every Little Thing They Do...
....is magic! The coronavirus pandemic has triggered two different posts - this being the first - which are not necessarily about the virus itself, but comment on some aspects of life that the current outbreak highlights rather well. We hear a lot these days about invisible illnesses and - whilst covid-19 is not always such, sometimes there are no symptoms and neither the person who is ill, nor their friends and relatives will have any idea that they are carrying and spreading the virus.
Categories: Complexity, Learning, Cognition, Worldview, Health, ----------
A Matter of Perspective
I was watching TV the other evening and switching between a few channels to see what was on and came across something on BBC4 which was described as "A spectacular aerial journey following the world’s longest monument ... in slow-TV style". I have watched bits of other programmes which were "in slow-TV style" and generally they are, actually, rather attractive - in that they draw you in to watch what is, often, not very much!! This one was the same - although actually compared to the journey along a canal this was not quite so slow as it was more like 'highlights' than true "slow-TV". Doing the maths they were in effect travelling at over 1500km/hr - hardly slow.
