The Fragmentation of Experience I was sitting quietly yesterday, just letting my mind run free as I frequently do, and was distracted by a single unusual dinging sound. I checked my phone, I checked my laptop, I checked my desktop …
Human Operating System 1 – The Fragmentation of Experience Read more »
What is the relationship between the world and our mental representation of it? What is the representation that we use to model the world, and run through in our minds alternative futures enabling us to anticipate and predict what might …
Representations of Reality Enable Control – Part 1 Read more »
In order to control you have to know something about what you are controlling. You have to know the levers you can pull and have some understanding of the effects. You need some more or less accurate ‘mental map’ or …
Knowledge is Power to Control Read more »
Control is a huge subject spanning from self-control through to state control. It is also fundamental to wellbeing, particularly when needs are not being met. Control is such a familiar concept that a lot of our thinking about it is …
It may be obvious, or even tautological, that wellbeing is about the satisfaction of needs but it is a useful way of putting it because it begs the question ‘what needs?’. This grounds the notion of wellbeing in something more …
Wellbeing is not just the Satisfaction of Needs Read more »