Human Mind!!

Variable B “screens” variable A from variable C when learning the value of B makes A and C no longer dependent on one another; once you know B, A says nothing about C.   Screening is a useful concept, but we are often over eager to apply it.  For example:

Mood Swings – Since your internal state must pass through time, you know that in the absence of outside influences, your state today can only depend on your state two days ago via the intermediary of your state yesterday.  So if something bad happened to you two days ago, but yesterday you felt fine, you might conclude you are over it; that bad event can’t hurt your mood today unless it causes some new outside influence on you.  Alas, your mood only summarizes a small part of your internal state.  What happened two days ago can pop up and bother you today, even if yesterday you were fine.

Disagreement – When someone disagrees with you, you should wonder what they know that you do not. They might explain their reasons for their differing belief, i.e., their evidence and analysis, and you might hear and ponder those reasons and yet find that you still disagree.  In this case you might feel that the fact that they disagree no longer informs you on this topic; the reasons for their belief screen their belief from informing your belief.  And yes, if they could give you all their reasons, that would be enough.  But except in a few extremely formal contexts, this is not even remotely close to being true.  We are usually only aware of a small fraction of the relevant evidence and analysis that influences our beliefs.   Disagreement is problematic, even after you’ve exchanged reasons.

Evolved Betrayal – We take actions that influence people around us, and we wonder how blameworthy we are regarding those actions.  We know evolution shaped our minds to promote our selfish genetic interests relative to others, but we’d like to feel we can ignore that fact when we are consciously aware of positive intentions toward them.  If our conscious intentions toward others were our only evolution-influenced mental factors which change our behavior toward others, this would be correct; intentions would screen evolved selfishness from our behavior.  Alas, this seems quite unlikely.  Our minds are very complex, and a great many processes influence each choice we make, processes about which we are mostly unaware.

For example, if we take an action that gives us selfish benefits, and if our minds saw clues with enough info to feasibly identify that selfish action, the fact that we had no conscious awareness of intending to achieve that selfish benefit should offer little reassurance.  It is a good bet that our mind was influenced by this selfish benefit, as well as by the impressions others might get from seeing such a selfish action.  You can hurt the ones you love, on “purpose.”

Water Under the Bridge

This is the most extraordinary, poignant, cartoon I’ve seen in a very long time. Bravo, Mr. Fish. It captures it all, the sorrow and struggle and final triumph of the last 148 years.

Human Thought

I was a having a discussion with a well thought  friend of mine  but on  a different topic but that made me to think  what are the basic characteristics of Human Thought Process.

I see four  board categories :

• The ability to combine and recombine different types of knowledge and information in order to gain new understanding.
  
• The ability to apply the solution for one problem to a new and different situation.
• The ability to create and easily understand symbolic representation of computation and sensory input
• The ability to detach modes of thought from raw sensory and perceptual input.

Want

Want
Joan Larkin

She wants a house full of cups and the ghosts
of last century’s lesbians;I want a spotless
apartment, a fast computer.She wants a woodstove,
three cords of ash, an axe;I want
a clean gas flame.She wants a row of jars:
oats, coriander, thick green oil;
I want nothing to store.She wants pomianders,
linens, baby quilts, scrapbooks.She wants Wellesley
reunions.I want gleaming floorboards, the river’s
reflection. She wants shrimp and sweat and salt;
she wants chocolate.I want a raku bowl,
steam rising from rice.She wants goats,
chickens, children.Feeding and weeping.I want
wind from the river freshening cleared rooms.
She wants birthdays, theaters, flags, peonies.
I want words like lasers.She wants a mother’s
tenderness.Touch ancient as the river.
I want a woman’s wit swift as a fox.
She’s in her city, meeting
her deadline; I’m in my mill village out late
with the dog, listening to the pinging wind bells thinking
of the twelve years of wanting, apart and together.
We’ve kissed all weekend; we want
to drive the hundred miles and try it again.

Alexia Sinclair

The best Protifolio I have ever seen :

Alexia Sinclair is an award-winning Australian photographer and digital artist.  Her digitally montaged work has been described as dark and sexy, baroque and magical, mixing avant-garde fashion and her work with contemporary fashion models with exotic European landscapes.

Reflections

Today I had a good discussion with a well thought friend of mine.But what I observed of myself was that I just cant speak I feel let them understand when they  really want to  get it .I just said them I am JUST FINE ITS OK but was never OK with all this ..

People say they are living the moments but I question them how can they live the moment if the minds are so heavily scripted /wired knowlingly or unknowlginly    with the senses feeding the brains .This brain taking into these reaction processing them taking in what it is needed for the present and preserve others furthur processing …connecting them with the context and making us giving a reaction which we might not be the real US reacting.. but this non contexual responses which generate all this mess …

And one thing was You Fall ,You get Up and the process of getting up is the kickass process …this is the time we have to not to loose The Self this is the this state projected  which is coming out of the your prism .Things aka PPL when see you thru this prism will  not see the true colors …but its  only you who know what you are how you are and how  to deal with it thats it and once you are over just wait for the next fall ….

Just gathering some other  audio/video  which was captured in my left brain are something like:

You can’t make someone share their knowledge , because you can never measure if they have. You can measure information transfer or process compliance, but you can’t determine if a senior partner has truly passed on all their experience or knowledge of a case.

We only know what we know when we need to know it. Human knowledge is deeply contextual and requires stimulus for recall. Unlike computers we do not have a list-all function. Small verbal or nonverbal clues can provide those ah-ha moments when a memory or series of memories are suddenly recalled, in context to enable us to act. When we sleep on things we are engaged in a complex organic form of knowledge recall and creation; in contrast a computer would need to be rebooted.

In the context of real need few people will withhold their knowledge. A genuine request for help is not often refused unless there is literally no time or a previous history of distrust. On the other hand ask people to codify all that they know in advance of a contextual enquiry and it will be refused (in practice its impossible anyway). Linking and connecting people is more important than storing their artifacts.

Everything is fragmented. We evolved to handle unstructured fragmented fine granularity information objects, not highly structured documents. People will spend hours on the internet, or in casual conversation without any incentive or pressure. However creating and using structured documents requires considerably more effort and time. Our brains evolved to handle fragmented patterns not information.

Tolerated failure imprints learning better than success. Let  young  burn there  fingers they will learn more about the dangers of fire than any amount of parental instruction cold provide. All human cultures have developed forms that allow stories of failure to spread without attribution of blame. Avoidance of failure has greater evolutionary advantage than imitation of success. It follows that attempting to impose best practice systems is flying in the face of over a hundred thousand years of evolution that says it is a bad thing.

The way we know things is not the way we report we know things. There is an increasing body of research data which indicates that in the practice of knowledge people use heuristics, past pattern matching and extrapolation to make decisions, coupled with complex blending of ideas and experiences that takes place in nanoseconds. Asked to describe how they made a decision after the event they will tend to provide a more structured process oriented approach which does not match reality.

We always know more than we can say, and we will always say more than we can write down. This is probably the most important. The process of taking things from our heads, to our mouths (speaking it) to our hands (writing it down) involves loss of content and context. It is always less than it could have been as it is increasingly codified.

Love and Conflict

When ever I think of love there is this dialogue in my mind between my two selfs,as two opposite ideas often reflect reality more accurately than one idea can I tried figuring out what the fucking is this Love
Here is the dialogue posted live :

Lover says :I can’t help falling in love it completes me it builds my character. It makes my life worth living.Love makes me humane.Its worth a compormise.Look the old couple crossing the raod how happy they are helping each other. We all need someone to care for us and to care for. So love? Of course, what could be more true, natural, and good? And besides, I can’t live without it.

Hater says :Love is like cocaine a dangerous and expensive drug I’m best off avoiding or at least limiting.It’s addictive.It’s for weak will people with a apetite of symboytic realtionship.
Its the one which drives the mutual admiration society,in which I find someone who will say untrue things about how exceptional I am so long as I reciprocate.
Love is like a Credit Card enjoy(spend)-now, (pay)commitment-later.
So why do we fall for it? More often than not, it’s looks, young people have more thing to do then to fall in love

And the argument continued …

Music Lyrics Vs Human Body Parts

Visual artists Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg analyzed over 10,000 songs to find out which parts of the human body were mentioned the most and broke down the resulting data by genre.They called this project called Listen.

“Listen investigates the relationship between language and the body,” is the project’s manifesto. “Verbal manifestations of human physicality in music, poetry and religion are distilled to their basic elements.” By presenting those elements in such an intuitive way, Viégas and Wattenberg bring data to life graphically, so that it can be grasped in seconds.Here are visuals by genre

Alternative

Blues

Country

Electronica

Folk

Gospel

Heavy Metal

Hip Hop

Jazz

Rock

R and B

Looks like almost all the genres have eyes in common R&B has highest body part usage in lyrics and Gospel the least body parts.To me sampling of data is limited to english language and all genres not covered