Category: "Cognition"
Everyone Knows
I've said it before - and I will probably say it again - it is really good when you get unexpected confirmation of things that you have written. In my recent post Tell Me About It I tackled the ever more prevalent problem of what is known as the "illusion of explanatory depth" with regard to our knowledge.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Complexity, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
All In The Presentation
"Its all just ones and zeroes" - not sure whether that quote comes from a single identifiable source, but it is often used as a way of breaking down the complexities of most computer systems to something "understandable". The problem is that although we understand "ones and zeroes" in their own right it requires rather more to interpret the meaning of all those "ones and zeroes".
Categories: Complexity, Decision Making, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Tell Me About It
One thing that has informed my worldview over recent years was the discovery that there exist a whole host of cognitive biases that cause us to mis-perceive everything we see, hear and think. In a previous post I linked to an article that listed no less than 58 of these - and I have a poster on my desk which lists 20. (note that these both originate from the same website)
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Complexity, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Jumping To Conclusions
In the last few days I have seen two really good examples in social media of people bringing their own biases to discussions and replying to what they thought was written rather than what was actually written. In both cases it made them look just a bit foolish.
Categories: Philosophical, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Are We Less Smart Than We Think We Are?
I am often intrigued by the type of post that appear on Social Media that 'shout' "only the smartest can get this right" or "only people with high intelligence can do this". My gut feel is that these were simply 'click-bait' - trying to draw you in with the promise of proving that you are 'better' than many.
Categories: Fun, Learning, Decision Making, Cognition, ----------
Does Reality Matter?
One recurrent theme of my blog entries is the difficulty we each experience separating reality from fiction. I don't mean that we are consciously deluding ourselves - although I expect that we all do that from time to time - rather that we simply lose track of what is real as against what is "made up".
Categories: Philosophical, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Faking It
There is a bit of a furore about the perceived influence of so called fake news on the result of the US election. On the one hand this strikes me as extremely funny - on the other it is rather worrying (on a number of levels).
Categories: News, Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Knowledge Management, Complexity, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Unexpected Links
A "like" by one of my LInkedIn connections highlighted an "interesting" coming together of an assortment of things that (probably) is only "interesting" (or perhaps significant) to me. The reason that it has made its way into the blog is not so much because of the article itself but because it is such a good illustration of things "coming together" in a specific way, for a specific person.
A Lesson Learned (on being stuck)
I've started on my newest online creation - partially inspired by the making memories series of posts here - to create a bit of a "life history" - a treasure trove of memories (probably real and imagined if you have read some of my previous writing on the subject) - a pot-pourri of little highlights (and possibly some lowlights) of my life.
Categories: Welcome, Philosophical, Cognition, Worldview, Books, ----------
Everything Changes
Although I have written many words in this blog (and elsewhere) that express my ideas on assorted subjects it would still be fair to say that my underlying mantra on what it all means is "I don't know" - which perhaps is just as well as it reinforces the purposes of the blog. All of my ideas/thoughts/beliefs are - as far as I am concerned - interim ones which might be superceded tomorrow - or next week - or few years from now - or perhaps even before I finish writing this sentence.
Categories: Philosophical, Complexity, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
