Glossar (Glossary)

OODA loop : observe–orient–decide–act cycle

Occam's Razor :

Chesterton's Fence :

Context, Content & Concern (Conflict Resolution Framework) : Context: Do we have a shared goal/intention?; : Content: : Concern:

Complex :

Creativity :

Flow : effortless, selflessness, timelessness

Embodiment : How we think and feel is enacted, meaning its inseparable from what we choose to do in the world, and always in a reciprocal relationship with our environment (Alexander Beiner, The Intimacy Crisis)

Information : The reduction of uncertainty

Knowledge (John Vervaeke) : (1) Propositional knowing. That is knowing that something is the case. E.g. Cats are mammals. Stored in semantic memory. : (2) Procedural knowing: That is knowing how to do something. Skills are not Theories, they are not believes, they are not true or false, they engage they world or they do not. Stored in procedural memory. Semantic memory can be damaged without damaged to procedural memory. : (3) Perspectival knowing: That is knowing what is like to be you here now. The whole field of your salience landscaping. Different criterion of realness. Stored in episodic memory. : (4) Participatory knowing: You and the world are co-participating in things, in such that real affordances exists between you. Stored as memory in the sense of self (Agent-Arena-Relationship).

Knowledge : Information which, when it is physically embodied in a suitable environment, tends to cause itself to remain so (David Deutsch)

Tacit Knowledge : Implicit knowledge. : Knowledge which is difficult to express or extract.

4E cognition : embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended

Intelligence : Is what you use to solve your problems (John Vervaeke)

Rationality : How you use your intelligence to overcome the problems of self-deception that emerge when you trying to solve your problems (John Vervaeke)

Wisdom : Rationally self-transcending rationality (John Vervaeke) : The capacity to frame and reframe - to master the machinery of cognition itself to produce meaning (John Vervaeke)

M3 : Do not confuse Mathematics, mathematical Models and Metaphors (David Krakauer)

What makes us human? (Yuval Noah Harari) : The truly unique trait of Sapiens is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money. Dollar bills have absolutely no value except in our collective imagination, but everybody believes in the dollar bill.

What makes us human? : Sweating and long distance running

Meaning (John Vervaeke) : Meaning in life (worth living; worth suffering; not meaning of life) is a sense of connectedness. Connectedness to yourself to other people, to the world. Connectedness of a particular type: You want to be connected to things that have a value and existence independent of your egocentric preferences and concerns. That is why having a child is considered very meaningful, because your connecting to something that gonna have a life and value independent of you.

Mindfulness : Includes the ability to brake away from an inappropriate frame (meditation) and the ability to make new frame (contemplation).

Heuristics : The most basic structures our cognition uses to frame, break down, and simplify data for sensemaking : 'rule-of-thumb' used to speed up our thinking

System-1 thinking : Our rapid source of intuitions and wordless thinking (Heuristics)

System-2 thinking : Slower, more deliberate verbal processes of calculation and deduction

Mental models : recurring concepts that help us explain, predict, or approach different and non-overlapping subjects. : e.g. opportunity cost or regulatory capture

Hedonic treadmill (adaptation) : the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life changes (Wikipedia)

Love : love is when you first acknowledge that something other than yourself is real (Iris Murdoch) : Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love (Tara Brach) : Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity (Simone Weil)

Power : The ability to exercise ones will over others : Power without authority or status can only be gained because of a monopoly of resources

Authority : Given power

Status : Inherent power (needs to be earned) : How an individual is held by an particular sphere (respect, trust)

Leadership : Look at leadership through the lens of power, authority and status

Facilitation : Look at facilitation through the lens of power, authority and status

Technology : Technology is doing more with less.