Archive for November, 2009
Something akin to My Treatise on Mental Spaces
Posted by Jay Morgan in applied cognition, cognitive science, User Experience on November 13th, 2009
That each practice, craft, art, emotion, occupation, trait, or other aspect of existence is a mental space.
That each mental space is multi-dimensional itself.
That humans encounter mental spaces by realizing and understanding them.
To describe how a human encounters a mental space:
- At first, we have no awareness, understanding of the mental space.
- Then, they realize it as uni-dimensional. Geometrically this is a point, dot in the mental space.
- This encounter creates an event horizon, behind which there are new possibilities within the event horizon that present further access to the dimensions of that mental space.
- Gradually and progressively our capacity for realization and understanding increases. That is, our capacity for experiencing more dimensions in that mental space increases.
- So, we begin to realize and understand a mental space dimension by dimension.
- Readiness, fitness, experience, will, motivation, ability, or other characteristics contribute to and define the capacity for experiencing more.
That this encounter is a mental or cognitive singularity. (As opposed to a mathematical, algebraic, technological, etc., singularity.)
- Not all cognitive singularities are devastating, say, as one might interpret a singularity Kurzweil discusses.
- Cognitive singularities vary in capacity and intensity.
- The maturity of cognitive singularities could be indexed, measured.
That the entirety of mental spaces I would call a “chromatic latticework” of mental spaces.
- The chromatic lattice’s fabric is described by the dimensionality of three kinds of mental spaces:
- Intra-mental spaces: those regarding one’s own mentality.
- Inter-mental spaces: those regarding mental spaces shared between interacting individuals.
- Extra-mental spaces: those regarding social, cultural, and that span multiple individuals. These exist beyond individuals, regardless of their awareness of them.
- The entirety of these spaces describes human knowledge.
- Are there a-, pre-, or para-cognitive spaces?
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