Category: "Cognition"
You Don't Know Me
The subject of memories continues to throw up new nuances. The trigger for today's musing is hearing (a number of times about a number of different people) "I didn't know that X used to...." - its a phrase that is heard a lot these days.
Categories: Philosophical, Friends, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
What Do We Leave Behind?
None of us is immortal - as someone (probably lots of people) once said "everybody dies" - although few know beforehand exactly when that is going to happen. A seemingly growing trend is to generate a "bucket list" - things to do before I die - always assuming I get round to them in time that is.... The longer the list, the less chance that you will actually complete it!
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Friends, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
On Being Misunderstood
Actually - it would be more accurate to say that I was NOT understood rather than I was MISunderstood!! However, the former more often than not leads to the latter. It has happened twice to day already - actually probably more than that as those are just the ones that I KNOW about!!
Categories: Philosophical, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Drama With A Hefty Dose of Reality
Whenever something dramatic happens there is a (very natural) tendency to treat it as "all bad" or "all good" - a mistake surely as it is extremely rare that any event hits either of those extremes, even more so when the event is far reaching either by dint of the number of people affected or due to the length of time involved. Rather there will be a mixture of good consequences and bad ones - all of which need to be taken account of to determine whether the event was beneficial or detrimental in the long term to the wider community.
Categories: Systems Thinking, Complexity, Cognition, ----------
Are You Happy With Your Profile Picture
On social media, is your profile picture how you see yourself or how you want others to see you?
Categories: Philosophical, Fun, Web, Decision Making, Cognition, ----------
A Modicum of Doubt
Many say it is of vital importance to hold true to your beliefs. Belief is a concept that is central to "being human". I would like to suggest that it is more important to have doubts. That Doubt is not so much central to "being" as to "becoming".
Categories: Philosophical, Knowledge Management, Complexity, Learning, Decision Making, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Time Marches On
In recent days I have had a couple of discussions about "getting old" – and more specifically about a slight feeling of disbelief about how old we actually are. Is "oldness" a state of mind – quite separate from "age" which is clearly a measure of time?
Categories: Philosophical, Friends, Cognition, Worldview, Books, ----------
What Is Not Real?
Has there ever been a work of fiction that didn't - in some way - draw on reality? This is, of course, sort of the reverse of my previous thoughts on whether our memory of reality is accurate or intermingled with its own fictions. In some cases the "fictional" world is created within a reasonably accurate representation of a specific environment. In others a "new world" is imagined in which the characters interact - often in a very similar way to what we are used to.
Categories: Philosophical, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Why A Madeleine!
Having written A Different Sort Of Madeleine I realised that my readers (always assuming I have any....) will have been completely thrown by the fact that it was written on the assumption that I had earlier posted a piece about madeleines. It turns out that I must have dreamt it!!
A Different Sort Of Madeleine
This is not the first attempt to put this into words. Usually, my blog posts are triggered by a thought that develops easily into a stream of ideas that are (hopefully) connected and lucid and coherent. Most times the writing is easy - perhaps too easy - as that doesn't always lend itself to reviewing to ensure that it is expressed in the correct way. This one is a bit different....
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Complexity, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
