Reading your posts always results in expanding mental pathways. This paragraph brought the preceding thoughts into perspective “Our cognition is always charged with emotion, which isn’t an add-on to rational thought but woven into how we perceive, remember, and reason. From infancy onward, emotional resonance calibrates how we attend to people, places, and objects.” And the necessary mirror to this is what you write about our need for silence, isolation, and reflection.
The ecosystem in which we exist, where we exchange information, ideas and energy, the connections we make, how we communicate, allows us to have context for our thoughts, so that we may collaborate with others (people, animals, plants, and things), intuitively understand causation, then we may form new concepts, leading to innovation and invention, and this may be cognition. Can this ever be artificial, to journey with us?
Another great and thought provoking post, Donald! The cynic in me (conjuring your recent 'cynics-critics' post), feels that capitalistic entities are overwhelmingly on a path to a complete focus on results and predicability of everything and minimizing (or avoiding completely) the unique perspectives, processes, and creativities that come from the conscious + subconscious human mind. I sense a very small minority of companies actually embrace the symbiosis of humans and tech while keeping both in balance. Seems to be a dying breed of business though - especially among corporations.
what a great, thought-provoking read.
Reading your posts always results in expanding mental pathways. This paragraph brought the preceding thoughts into perspective “Our cognition is always charged with emotion, which isn’t an add-on to rational thought but woven into how we perceive, remember, and reason. From infancy onward, emotional resonance calibrates how we attend to people, places, and objects.” And the necessary mirror to this is what you write about our need for silence, isolation, and reflection.
The ecosystem in which we exist, where we exchange information, ideas and energy, the connections we make, how we communicate, allows us to have context for our thoughts, so that we may collaborate with others (people, animals, plants, and things), intuitively understand causation, then we may form new concepts, leading to innovation and invention, and this may be cognition. Can this ever be artificial, to journey with us?
Very interesting read and perspective, I think you are on to something here!
It was something in this line of thinking that really resonated with me.
Another great and thought provoking post, Donald! The cynic in me (conjuring your recent 'cynics-critics' post), feels that capitalistic entities are overwhelmingly on a path to a complete focus on results and predicability of everything and minimizing (or avoiding completely) the unique perspectives, processes, and creativities that come from the conscious + subconscious human mind. I sense a very small minority of companies actually embrace the symbiosis of humans and tech while keeping both in balance. Seems to be a dying breed of business though - especially among corporations.