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Henry van Eyken wrote:
> In his "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework," Doug
> describes how he used a set of notched note cards for organizing and
> fishing out those notes that were relevant to a particular issue of
> concern. See Section 3: A3d. Having used the system for some time, he
> had come to recognize a useful subordering: Specification,
> Organization, and Content.
>
> I seem to recognize a pattern here, a pattern that developed from the
> contemplating of dreams.
>
> Dreams (well, many of my own dreams, anyway) seem to be generated by
> emotional or arousal states (Honi soit qui mal y pense). Most dreams
> are humdrum, forgotten already by the time I wake up. Some are quite
> vivid and upon review have elements corresponding to some outstanding
> events of the previous day. The interesting thing is that these are
> not factual correspondences as much as they are correspondences of a
> type usually connected with a fair amount of emotion or attending or
> heightened perception.
>
> My sense of dreaming is that it is the right side of the brain
> collecting bits of facts (factuals, monads*, concept packets** - in
> short bits of information) associated with a previous strong arousal
> of similar type, and then organizes them (have them self-associate)
> into tiny stories that abruptly displace one another. In other words,
> arousals (emotions) are organizing agents, but, unless one is awake,
> agents with little regard for reality. (I have been able to identify
> another person's dreamed factuals with emotionally associated real
> factuals, and do so on a number of occasions without any difficulty
> whatsoever. Hence, I am confident about being correct here in
> principle.) Reality comes with the waking state which knits those
> factuals together so as to let us interpret our daily experiences to
> ourselves - to make sense of the events around us, i.e. to experience
> "reality," and in the process add to our store of factuals.
>
> It is known that very young children frequently dream of flying.
> Presumably their factuals are still rich (high fraction) in those they
> came into this world with and, hence, one may expect similarities in
> the dramatic content of dreams. That effect will dilute with growing
> up.
>
> Interesting is the brief period of disorganization during awakening.
> Opening one's eyes during the sleep-wake transition, one may ascribe a
> line to being the edge of a table, but after a brief moment one
> realizes it is actually part of a door frame. That seems to correspond
> to the half second or so of our nervous system's feedback time.
> Factuals get organized by, guess what, our natural propensity to
> bootstrap. (Ref. Gazzaniga, "The Mind's Past.")
>
> Now I should guess that it is fair to look at Doug's "Specification,
> Organization, and Content" as corresponding to natural aspects of
> mind. Content = factuals. Organization = waking state (when
> consistent), dream state (when flimsy). Specification = interest
> focus, which is strongly influenced by emotions. As for specification,
> consider primitive man. He must immediately react to sudden
> environmental threats and his "specification" must rapidly limit
> content to what's relevant (so as to avoid time lost in bootstrapping)
> and highten "organization" (i.e. attending, arousal). Specification, I
> suggest may be our natural hyperscope in a natural "three-layered
> structure" with a bunch of factuals (raw and chunked) as the bottom
> layer, the waking state or some emotional state attuned by some
> choleric as the middle layer
>
> Now go back to Jack Park's notes on chaos theory ("Use cases and
> ontologies"; last Thursday) with its components: Actors = factuals;
> relations = organization; state = specification (selecting object of
> our affection) or hyperscope.
>
> Why do I think this is important to contemplate? Because chances are
> that augmenting the human mind will work better if it is in step with
> the very way natural mind works anyway.
>
> We may just be on a very good track.
>
> Henry
>
> * monads, I seem to recall, is a term used for roving elements of
> thought in some late 19th century theory of psychology.
>
> ** "concept packets" is a term used by Doug.
>
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