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Three modes of thinking: Open, Explore, and Close. Each mode represents a different mindset with which to approach a complex challenge. Let’s take a look at each: Open Open is a mode of divergent thinking that’s focused on generating lots of creative options. It’s not about judging ideas as good or bad; rather, it’s about going wide to come up with diverse possibilities. Explore After opening, there’s a lot to dig into. The Explore mindset is focused on organizing, combining and building upon these possibilities. During Explore, we’re looking for meaningful themes and patterns to make connections and develop great insights. After exploring, we may have a better sense of what we want to prioritize; however, Close helps us to assess these options further and, ultimately, commit. Close is a mode of convergent thinking that’s focused on narrowing our options and making decisions to move the process onward. During Close, we’re analyzing and critiquing our thoughts and ideas to select the best option to carry forward. https://www.thedesigngym.com/design-thinkings-three-modes-of-thinking-open-explore-close/   #1337 ❤️William Pahl  
There are 3 types of thinking in the Human Design System. Logical Inner Knowing Abstract https://loveyourhumandesign.com/the-3-types-of-thinking/   #1323 ❤️William Pahl  
Subjective, emotional, and inter subjective as three ways of thinking. https://www.thinkingforeveryone.com/the-three-kinds-of-thinking/   #1316 ❤️William Pahl  
Thinking The 3 Types of Thinking There are 3 types of thinking in the Human Design System. Logical Inner Knowing Abstract. https://loveyourhumandesign.com/the-3-types-of-thinking/   #1312 ❤️William Pahl  
Dichotomy 1: The Truth Binary. Dichotomy 2: The Goodness Binary. Dichotomy 3: The Identification Binary https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/the-three-types-of-binary-thinking   #1311 ❤️William Pahl  
0-onesomewhole Whole - a thing that is complete in itself.
Whole - a complete amount or sum : a number, aggregate, or totality lacking no part, member, or element
Merrian-Webster Dictionary. Whole.   #1290 ❤️William Pahl  
Tadahiro Taniguchifoursomeembodied processesfast thinkingslow thinkingsymbol system emergence Tadahiro Taniguchi and his colleagues, Japanese researchers of Artificial Intelligence and robotics, appealed to Henri Bergson's theory of multiple intrinsic time scales in expanding upon the fast-thinking System 1 and slow-thinking System 2 distinction popularized by experimental psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.
 This paper introduces the System 0/1/2/3 framework as an extension of dual-process theory, employing a quad-process model of cognition. Expanding upon System 1 (fast, intuitive thinking) and System 2 (slow, deliberative thinking), we incorporate System 0, which represents pre-cognitive embodied processes, and System 3, which encompasses collective intelligence and symbol emergence. We contextualize this model within Bergson's philosophy by adopting multi-scale time theory to unify the diverse temporal dynamics of cognition.
 System 0 emphasizes morphological computation and passive dynamics, illustrating how physical embodiment enables adaptive behavior without explicit neural processing. Systems 1 and 2 are explained from a constructive perspective, incorporating neurodynamical and AI viewpoints. In System 3, we introduce collective predictive coding to explain how societal-level adaptation and symbol emergence operate over extended timescales. This comprehensive framework ranges from rapid embodied reactions to slow-evolving collective intelligence, offering a unified perspective on cognition across multiple timescales, levels of abstraction, and forms of human intelligence.
Tadahiro Taniguchi, Yasushi Hirai, Masahiro Suzuki, Shingo Murata, Takato Horii, Kazutoshi Tanaka. System 0/1/2/3: Quad-process theory for multi-timescale embodied collective cognitive systems
Tadahiro Taniguchi. Collective Predictive Coding and Active Inference.   #1281 ❤️Daniel Friedman   		2025
Sand Talk 5 minds https://www.antarcticanimation.com/content/wordpress/sand-talk-lenses/ they are better explained in the book by Tyson   #1277 ❤️MarcusPetz  
https://ecohana.mn.co/posts/ubu-ntu-becoming-people-again Ubuntu - I am because you / we are. Here is Will Ruddick writing about this. Is there are 3 mind aspect here? I to you to we?   #1261 ❤️MARCUSPETZ  
Japanese culturethreesomecommit fullycopy a masterfind your own voice Philosophy expositor Jonny Thomson describes the Japanese aesthetic approach, geido, 芸道, as consisting of three steps to become a master of an art form.
  • Commit fully.
  • Copy a master.
  • Find your own voice.
Jonny Thomson on Geido.   #1260 ❤️MarcusPetz   		2025
Julian Baggini0-three mindscluster thinking Julian Baggini. How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking. 2023 https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/cluster-thinking-is-damaging-our-politics-here-are-3-ways-to-beat-it/ if you think one thing your thinking is clustered around other associated things and an assumption is made about your thinking based on an anticipated cluster - you can see this with algorithms for ads on social media for example.   #1259 ❤️MarcusPetz   2023
0-three minds https://www.facebook.com/reel/1989668164834749 Jonny Thomson The parable of the empty boat. How the first mind is affected by reflection on an emotional response. https://www.newventureswest.com/the-deeper-meaning-in-the-story-of-the-empty-boat/   #1258 ❤️MarcusPetz  
Living in Truth / Parallel Polis https://richardflyer.substack.com/p/living-the-truth-building-a-parallel these could be split, though Richard argues they are the same. "Vaclav Havel and Catholic philosopher Vaclav Benda. Together, they gave birth to the concept of "Parallel Polis"—a society within a society where truth, beauty, and freedom could thrive outside the grasp of the Soviet-controlled state. ... “The strategic aim of the parallel polis,” Benda wrote, “should be the growth and renewal, of civic and political culture—and along with it, an identical structuring of society, creating bonds of responsibility and fellow feeling.” Václav Havel asserted that the movement’s spiritual foundation—a “sense of the transcendent”-was the only hope for uniting diverse, multicultural societies. ... As Havel wrote, “The point where living within the truth ceases to be a mere negation of living and becomes articulate in a particular way is the point at which something is born that might be called the ‘independent spiritual, social, and political society.’” The Parallel Polis had a primary task — to re-establish civil society based on truth, integrity, and mutual benefit powerful enough to overcome the barriers set up by the totalizing, authoritarian Communist regime.   #1254 ❤️MarcusPetz  
Marija Gimbutasthree mindsgenerativedestructiveregenerative Lithuanian American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas argued, on the basis of iconography, that in pre-Indo European Old Europe, in the Neolithic and earlier periods, worship centered on a triple Goddess.
 For the purpose of this study, these deities will be arranged in four main groups.
  • First, the Goddess who personifies the generative forces of nature. To this category belong the various life propagating, birth-giving, life-maintaining, and life-stimulating aspects of the Goddess.
  • Second, the Goddess who personifies the destructive forces of nature — the Death Goddess, rendered as a stiff nude, a poisonous snake, or bird of prey: vulture, owl, raven, or crow.
  • Third, the Goddess of Regeneration; it is she who controls the life cycles of the entire natural world. Her manifestations are the various symbols of the uterus, pubic triangle, or fetus: toad, frog, hedgehog, bull head, triangle and double triangle. She also appears as an insect: bee, butterfly, moth. Death and regeneration are inseparably connected within the normal cycle of nature; therefore the Goddess of Death and Regeneration is depicted as one deity, in acknowledgment of the simultaneous function and cyclic continuum of these aspects.
  • The fourth category focuses on the prehistoric male deities who make up only three to five percent of the corpus of Neolithic sculpture.
Marija Gimbutienė. The civilization of the Goddess.
Wikipedia: Triple Goddess (Neopaganism)   #1248 ❤️Marcus Petz   		1991
Divine comedy HELL PURGATORY HEAVEN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy I see that you have no 14th century examples - so here is one   #1247 ❤️Marcus  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Grow_the_Rushes,_O Song Green Grow the Rushes Oh! - are there some logics with the numbers?   #1246 ❤️Marcus  
https://www.internalartsinternational.com/ba-gua-zhang/ Bagua Engram 8 - 64   #1235 ❤️MarcusPetz  
Cathars The Cathars believed that there were two principal powers in the Universe. One, God, was entirely good and dwelt in a condition of pure Spirit and Light, while the other, Satan/Lucifer, "the prince of this world" was entirely evil and ruled over the world of Matter, hence their rejection of physical pleasures. This dualism they drew from a particular reading of the Gospels, for example "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit" (John 3:6).
2 principle powers in the universe and the perfecti reacting to them
wikipedia: Cathar Perfect   #1229 ❤️Marcus Petz  
William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysinthreesomecut upreassembleemerge American beat poet William S. Burroughs and French poet Brion Gysin, in their book of collaborative fiction, The Third Mind, showcased the cut-up technique which Guisin discovered in 1957 and they popularized in the 1960s. The method consisted of three steps which they applied collaboratively.
 1) Physically cutting up a written text into pieces.
 2) Reassembling the pieces randomly, creating new combinations.
 3) Grasping new meaning that emerges through juxtaposition.
Their theory suggests that when two people work together in harmony, they generate a third consciousness or mind that transcends their individual capabilities.
Perplexity AI. Burroughs & Gysin's Theory of the Third Mind between Two People
Wikipedia: Cut-up technique
Wikipedia: The Third Mind   #1219 ❤️Daniel Friedman   		1958
Avel Guénin-Carlutfoursomewhat is it?how does it work?why must it be? French cognitive scientist Avel Guénin-Carlut distinguished three kinds of scientific explanation.
  • Nomological. What is it? Universal laws as described by Newtonian physics.
  • Mechanical. How does it work? Contextual modelling as offered by the Hodgkin-Huxley model.
  • Functional. Why must it be? Contextual modelling as yielded by the adaptive hypothesis.
Avel Guénin-Carlut. From Contextuality to Social Constraints: An Active Inference ontology for participatory realism and social change   #1217 ❤️Daniel Friedman   		2025
Richard Flyerthree mindshearthead American community organizer Richard Flyer engages his readers as he writes a manual for birthing a symbiotic culture.
 Is it easier to teach someone primarily interested in building external structures and systems to come from their Heart, or is it easier for someone already coming from the Heart to learn how to make these Symbiotic systems?
 So far, it’s been unanimous. Everyone I spoke with agrees that teaching this approach to someone already coming from the Heart with some grounding in the Transcendent is easier. That’s because they realize you can’t put new wine (Divine Love) into old wineskins (frameworks).
 That’s why “the heart of the matter is the matter of the heart."
 As I’ve seen, those already in the Heart are more prepared to build a Symbiotic Culture than those with a brilliant structure (from the mind) they want to impose. Heart-centered “weavers” are likelier to intuit a way forward and collaborate with reality than those who wish to mold reality to fit their concept. The latter is an “anti-life” approach; life is fluid and unpredictable, like those flowing waters.
Richard Flyer. Birthing the Symbiotic Age. The Heart-Centered Way of Symbiotic Culture.   #1215 ❤️Marcus Petz   		2025
Here are several examples which are connected to make a metatheory of how to build symbiotic culture: https://richardflyer.substack.com/p/introducing-symbiotic-culture includes: The elements of a unifying worldview and strategy are: Shared purpose and goals 8 Shared principles 5 Shared values/virtues 12 Common community needs Distributed Network Infrastructure of a new Network Commons Symbiotic Societies - an activation group to launch your effort   #1213 ❤️MarcusPetz  
Dark Triad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad   #1212 ❤️MarcusPetz  
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/burroughs-gysin-s-theory-of-th-er8ccTS5QsGX97tfMqrMYA William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin developed the concept of "The Third Mind" to describe a unique phenomenon that occurs during creative collaboration. This theory suggests that when two people work together in harmony, they generate a third consciousness or mind that transcends their individual capabilities. In the situation where one person is asking the other a question, it is like 1st and 2nd mind, mediated by 3rd mind.   #1211 ❤️Daniel Friedman  
(focus on singularities vs. multiplicities) vs. (disrupting vs. connecting) https://infranodus.com/about/cognitive-variability   #1208 ❤️Hans-Florian Hoyer  
Traditional, modern, post-modern, integrative worldviews.
February 19, 2025. Is the mechanistic materialistic reductionist theory (or the modern worldview) still scientific tenable? And if not: is anthroposophy as an integrative worldview a better theory? Prof. Dr. Erik Baars.
www.worldgoetheanum.org Research Colloquium (online)   #1174 ❤️Marcus Petz   		2025
In writing, there are three types of irony — verbal, situational, and dramatic. Verbal irony is when a person says one thing but means the opposite; Situational irony is when the opposite of what is expected happens; and. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that characters do not."   #1158 ❤️Marcus Petz  
Northrop Frye
romance, tragedy, comedy, satire
Wikipedia: Anatomy of Criticism   #1157 ❤️Andrew Pashea  
Gödel's incompleteness theorems The first incompleteness theorem states that no consistent system of axioms whose theorems can be listed by an effective procedure (i.e. an algorithm) is capable of proving all truths about the arithmetic of natural numbers. For any such consistent formal system, there will always be statements about natural numbers that are true, but that are unprovable within the system. The second incompleteness theorem, an extension of the first, shows that the system cannot demonstrate its own consistency. Employing a diagonal argument, Gödel's incompleteness theorems were the first of several closely related theorems on the limitations of formal systems. They were followed by Tarski's undefinability theorem on the formal undefinability of truth, Church's proof that Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem is unsolvable, and Turing's theorem that there is no algorithm to solve the halting problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems   #1154 ❤️Marcus Petz  
0-three minds Andrius will respond to Marcus regarding the three minds
->STATE - Knowing a '''dispositif''' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispositif
->PROCESS - So application of knowledge, a '''praxis''' -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) ->NEW STATE - A creation resulting from the application of a Process to a State, a '''Synthesis'''
wikipedia: Dialectic: Modern philosophy   #1153 ❤️Marcus Petz  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXXC4MZZnY Theory Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose Daniel Pink is one of the world's leading business thinkers and the author of five best-selling books about work, management, and behavioural science. Pink's 2009 talk on The Puzzle of Motivation is one of the 10 most-watched TED Talks of all time. Watch his Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose video in which Pink describes what motivates us to work and states how, for non-trivial tasks, higher monetary incentives tend to lead to worse performance.   #1150 ❤️Marcus Petz  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence In psychology, the four stages of competence, or the "conscious competence" learning model, relates to the psychological states involved in the process of progressing from incompetence to competence in a skill. People may have several skills, some unrelated to each other, and each skill will typically be at one of the stages at a given time. Many skills require practice to remain at a high level of competence. The four stages suggest that individuals are initially unaware of how little they know, or unconscious of their incompetence. As they recognize their incompetence, they consciously acquire a skill, then consciously use it. Eventually, the skill can be utilized without it being consciously thought through: the individual is said to have then acquired unconscious competence.[1]   #1148 ❤️Marcus Petz  
Commusings: Guardians or Foes? A Tale of Dragons Across Cultures by Mimi Kuo-Deemer Dear Marcus, Today’s essay is about dragons. In full disclosure, my personal experience with dragons is limited to puffing the magic one. That said, in reading Mimi’s essay on how the depiction of dragons diverge between Eastern and Western culture, I immediately thought of “Thou Shalt.” This was the peculiar name of Friedrich Nietzsche’s dragon in his philosophical tome, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The German philosopher often leveraged these fire-breathing creatures to symbolize the oppressive forces, societal norms and religious dogmas that individuals must overcome to achieve true self-realization. One of Nietzsche’s most celebrated references to dragons appears in the concept of “The Three Metamorphoses,” where the nihilist describes three stages of spiritual transformation: The Camel: Representing burden-bearing, where an individual unquestioningly carries the weight of societal and religious expectations. The Lion: Reflecting the spirit of rebellion, where one fights against imposed values and seeks freedom. The Child: Characterizing a state of radical creativity and new beginnings, embodying true self-overcoming. During the Lion stage, Nietzsche describes a great dragon named "Thou Shalt" which represents the oppressive moral values imposed by tradition, religion, and authority. The dragon is covered in golden scales, each inscribed with a commandment of society—rules that dictate what is "right" and "wrong." To move beyond this stage, the Lion must slay the dragon by declaring "I Will!", symbolizing the assertion of personal will and autonomy over imposed values. Nietzsche’s use of the dragon metaphor is tied to his broader philosophy of self-overcoming. The dragon is a symbol of fear, control, and mental barriers, and only by defeating it can an individual achieve true freedom and self-actualization. Today’s essayist, the Qigong teacher Mimi Kuo-Deemer, describes a very different depiction of the dragon as portrayed in Eastern mythology. Of course, the West and the East often clash in terms of how they interpret the natural world. In the West, we are taught to see nature as separate and hostile – something to be subdued and sublimated. The East understands humans as nature, mutually arising as part of it.   #1147 ❤️Marcus Petz   2025
Sabrina Meherally, sahibzada mayed Self-reflection, sensing and inquiry, holistic sense-making, responsible co-creation, regeneration and emergence.
Our approach to relational design is non-linear. There is no distinct separation between each phase. While they occur in some order, they also occur throughout. Self awareness, sensing, and sensemaking are woven throughout the process.
Relational Design is an emergent process that is steeped in care, relational responsibility, and consensual collaboration. We root our purpose in restoration and regeneration - creating a more habitable, healthier and joyful future for generations to come.
Sabrina Meherally, sahibzada mayed
Pause + Effect. Relational Design.   #1129 ❤️Marcus Petz  
Lev Vygotskythree mindsknownnot knownteachable Litvak Soviet developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky introduced the zone of proximal development (ZPD), which educators Anne West, Janet Swanson, Lindsay Liscomb described as follows.
 ZPD can also be described as the area between what a learner can do by himself and that which can be attained with the help of a ‘more knowledgeable other’ adult or peer. The ‘more knowledgeable other’, or MKO, shares knowledge with the student to bridge the gap between what is known and what is not known. Once the student has expanded his knowledge, the actual developmental level has been expanded and the ZPD has shifted. The ZPD is always changing as the student expands and gains knowledge, so scaffolded instruction must constantly be individualized to address the changing ZPD of each student.
Anne West, Janet Swanson, Lindsay Lipscomb. Scaffolding.
Wikipedia: Zone of proximal development
Wikipedia: Instructional scaffolding   #1127 ❤️Marcus Petz   		1931
William S. Burroughs The ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls.
  • Top soul, and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren the Secret name. This corresponds to my Director. He directs the film of your life from conception to death. The Secret Name is the title of your film. When you die, that's where Ren came in.
  • Second soul, and second one off the sinking ship, is Sekem: Energy, Power. Light. The Director gives the orders, Sekem presses the right buttons.
  • Number three is Khu, the Guardian Angel. He, she or it is third man out...depicted as flying away across a full moon, a bird with luminous wings and head of light. sort of thing you might see on a screen in an Indian restaurant in Panama. The Khu is responsible for the subject and can be injured in his defense - but not permanently, since the first three souls are eternal. They go back to Heaven for another vessel. The four remaining souls must take their chances with the subject in the land of the dead.
  • Number four is Ba, the Heart, often treacherous. This is a hawk's body with your face on it, shrunk down to the size of a fist. Many a hero has been brought down, like Samson, by a perfidious Ba.
  • Number five is Ka, the double, most closely associated with the subject. The Ka, which usually reaches adolescence at the time of bodily death, is the only reliable guide through the Land of the Dead to the Western Lands.
  • Number six is Khaibit, the Shadow, Memory, your whole past conditioning from this and other lives.
  • Number seven is Sekhu, the Remains.
William S. Burroughs. The Western Lands.
Wikipedia: The Western Lands   #1116 ❤️MarcusPetz   		1987
Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Steiner
Man experiences within himself what we may call thought, and in thought he can feel himself directly active, able to exercise his activity. When we observe anything external, e.g. a rose or a stone, and picture it to ourselves, someone may rightly say: “You can never know how much of the stone or the rose you have really got hold of when you imagine it. You see the rose, its external red colour, its form, and how it is divided into single petals; you see the stone with its colour, with its several corners, but you must always say to yourself that hidden within it there may be something else which does not appear to you externally. You do not know how much of the rose or of the stone your mental picture of it embraces.”
But when someone has a thought, then it is he himself who makes the thought. One might say that he is within every fiber of his thought, a complete participator in its activity. He knows: “Everything that is in the thought I have thought into it, and what I have not thought into it cannot be within it. I survey the thought. Nobody can say, when I set a thought before my mind, that there may still be something more in the thought, as there may be in the rose and in the stone, for I have myself engendered the thought and am present in it, and so I know what is in it.”
In truth, thought is most completely our possession. If we can find the relation of thought to the Cosmos, to the Universe, we shall find the relation to the Cosmos of what is most completely ours. This can assure us that we have here a fruitful standpoint from which to observe the relation of man to the universe. We will therefore embark on this course; it will lead us to significant heights of anthroposophical observation.
Rudolf Steiner. Human and Cosmic Thought. Lecture I.   #1098 ❤️Dreamcype  
Rudolf Steinerthree mindspictureswordsanimations Austrian free thinker Rudolf Steiner, founder of anthroposophy, lectured on contemplating the world from different standpoints.
  • What did human souls experience previously? They experienced pictures; all their experience of the external world took the form of pictures. I have often spoken of this from certain points of view. This picture-experience is the last phase of the old clairvoyant experience.
  • The development of thought leads to a stage of doubting the existence of what are called “universals”, general concepts, and thus to so-called Nominalism, the view that universals can be no more than “names”, nothing but words. ... The collective or general triangle must contain everything that a triangle can contain. But a triangle that is acute-angled cannot be at the same time right-angled and obtuse-angled. Hence there cannot be a collective triangle. ... There are only separate things; and beyond the separate things—so says the Nominalist—we have nothing but words that comprise the separate things.
  • I will not only draw a triangle and let it stay as it is, but I will make certain demands on your imagination. You must think to yourself that the sides of the triangle are in continual motion. When they are in motion, then out of the form of the movements there can arise simultaneously a right-angled, or an obtuse-angled triangle, or any other. ... If we are to rise from the specific thought to the general thought, we have to bring the specific thought into motion; thus thought in movement becomes the “general thought” by passing constantly from one form into another.
Rudolf Steiner. Human and Cosmic Thought. Lecture I.   #1097 ❤️Hans-Florian Hoyer   		1914
John Maynard Keynesthree mindsspontaneous urge to actionexpected value of benefitsatmosphere English economist John Maynard Keynes described consumer confidence in terms of "animal spirits", an expression used, in their own ways, by Traheron, Descartes, Newton, Wood, Marx, Defoe, Austen, Disraeli, Wodehouse and Doyle.
 Even apart from the instability due to speculation, there is the instability due to the characteristic of human nature that a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic. Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as a result of animal spirits – of a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.
 This means, unfortunately, not only that slumps and depressions are exaggerated in degree, but that economic prosperity is excessively dependent on a political and social atmosphere which is congenial to the average business man. If the fear of a Labour Government or a New Deal depresses enterprise, this need not be the result either of a reasonable calculation or of a plot with political intent; - it is the mere consequence of upsetting the delicate balance of spontaneous optimism.
Wikipedia: Animal spirits (Keynes)
John Maynard Keynes. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.   #1094 ❤️Marcus Petz   		1936
Jean-Pierre Caron0-system Jean-Pierre Caron
12 points of view on money based on Aristotle's 10 categories and also Strength (Dynamism) and Manifestation (Phenomenalism)
Jean-Pierre Caron. What Is Money? A matter of point of view!   #1091 ❤️Hans-Florian Hoyer   		2017
Plato Plato
. . . then, if we are not able to hunt the Good with one idea only, with three we may catch our prey: Beauty, Symmetry, Truth are the three.... --Plato, Philebus
from Fuller's Synergetics   #1090 ❤️Dreamcype  
Buckminster Fuller 542.01 This triadic concept is exclusively planar__ergo, nonexistent. What is inadvertently omitted is the observer of the planar triad, whose observer position marks the fourth corner of the tetrahedron, the minimum system. Fig. 542.02 542.02 The observer-plus-the-observed, Beauty, Symmetry, and Truth are the four unique system-defining characteristics. It is possible that Plato might have approved a systematic reordering of his statement to read: The observer (as a truth) observing three other truths constitutes a system whose macro-micro- Universe-differentiating capability displays inherent symmetry and beauty__symmetry of four vertexes subtending four faces and symmetry of any two opposite pairs of its six edges precessionally subtending one another, together with the beauty of accomplishing such symmetry and Universe- differentiating with the minimum of structural system interrelationships. (See Fig. 542.02.)
https://monoskop.org/images/4/46/Fuller_R_Buckminster_Synergetics_1997.pdf   #1089 ❤️Marcus Petz  
Marcus Petz0-three minds Science, Art, Design Science
4.2 Integral Science Epistemologically, humans perceive reality or nature from different positions. To think as an artist, or scientist, or design scientist (designer) is not neutral, but contains a standpoint and thus a philosophical position. Cf. Harding (1998) for more on standpoint epistemology and science. The presence of these varied standpoints becomes clear upon reading texts produced by practitioners or talking with those self-describing as scientists, artists, or designers.
In my relational ontology, we can think of different domains in how we approach the world. These domains include science, art, design science, though others can be considered, e.g., spirituality. It is possible to operate in a way that is inclusive of these different domains. You can have a religious artist, for example. Thinking in terms of domains is not common. The inter-domain approach can be seen in the way of Leonardo da Vinci called saper vedere (knowing how to see) (Gelb, 1998). “To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” Is a quote attributed to Leonardo that summarizes this idea (Pasipoularides, 2019; Kinsman, 1989), though I can find no original source of Leonardo writing or reported as saying exactly these words in any language. For more on da Vinci’s approach, see his Note books (2020 [1883]), and A Treatise on Painting (2014 [1802]).
Marcus Petz. Community Currencies: A Mechanism for Rural Renaissance, Promise and Practicalities. Pg.103.   #1088 ❤️Marcus Petz   		2023
Hermann Heinrich Gossen Hermann Heinrich Gossen
Gossen evidently held the highest possible opinion of the importance of his own theory, for he commences by claiming honours in economic science equal to those of Copernicus in astronomy. He then at once insists that mathematical treatment, being the only sound one, must be applied throughout ; but, out of consideration for the reader, the higher analysis will be explicitly introduced only when it is requisite to determine maxima and minima. The treatise then opens with the consideration of Economics as the theory of pleasure and pain, that is as the theory of the procedure by which the individual and the aggregate of individuals constituting society, may realise the maximum of pleasure with the minimum of painful effort. The natural law of pleasure is then clearly stated, somewhat as follows:—Increase of the same hind of consumption yields pleasure continuously diminishing up to the point of satiety. This law he illustrates geometrically, and then proceeds to investigate the conditions under which the total pleasure from one or more objects may be raised to a maximum.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84904/page/n39/mode/1up?q=Gossen   #1085 ❤️Hans-Florian Hoyer  
Actor-network Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor-network_theory Developed by science and technology studies (STS) scholars Michel Callon, Madeleine Akrich and Bruno Latour, the sociologist John Law, and others, it can more technically be described as a "material-semiotic" method. This means that it maps relations that are simultaneously material (between things) and semiotic (between concepts). It assumes that many relations are both material and semiotic. The term actor-network theory was coined by John Law in 1992 to describe the work being done across case studies in different areas at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation at the time. In a workshop called "On Recalling ANT", Latour himself stated that there are four things wrong with actor-network theory: "actor", "network", "theory" and the hyphen.[53]   #1081 ❤️Marcus  
economicsthreesomehypothesisstatistical model and calculationeconomic sense The International Monetary Fund explains the methodology of econometrics as follows.
 The first step is to suggest a theory or hypothesis to explain the data being examined. The explanatory variables in the model are specified, and the sign and/or magnitude of the relationship between each explanatory variable and the dependent variable are clearly stated. At this stage of the analysis, applied econometricians rely heavily on economic theory to formulate the hypothesis
 The second step is the specification of a statistical model that captures the essence of the theory the economist is testing. The model proposes a specific mathematical relationship between the dependent variable and the explanatory variables—on which, unfortunately, economic theory is usually silent. By far the most common approach is to assume linearity—meaning that any change in an explanatory variable will always produce the same change in the dependent variable (that is, a straight-line relationship).
 The third step involves using an appropriate statistical procedure and an econometric software package to estimate the unknown parameters (coefficients) of the model using economic data. This is often the easiest part of the analysis thanks to readily available economic data and excellent econometric software. Still, the famous GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) principle of computing also applies to econometrics.
 The fourth step is by far the most important: administering the smell test. Does the estimated model make economic sense—that is, yield meaningful economic predictions?
&ęmsp;If the estimated parameters do not make sense, how should the econometrician change the statistical model to yield sensible estimates?
Sam Ouliaris. What Is Econometrics?   #1080 ❤️MP   		2011
Goethe ur-pflanzer = the most basic living plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis_of_Plants   #1078 ❤️Hans-Florian Hoyer  
Buckminster Fuller 542.04 Beauty and symmetry are inherent and make superficially "good" the three additional interrelationships: thankfulness, maximum economy, and wisdom. They also make "good" all the remaining cases on balance__the 32 cases (Sec. 1044) of all the simplest cosmically conceptual and structurally realizable systems of Universe.
https://monoskop.org/images/4/46/Fuller_R_Buckminster_Synergetics_1997.pdf   #1075 ❤️Daniel Friedman   		1979
Marr's Three Levels of description. M1 - Implementational M2 - Algorithmic M3 - Computational https://ppw.kuleuven.be/apps/research/petervanderhelm/doc/marr_levels.html 1. Computational level GOAL Mental representations 2. Algorithmic level METHOD Cognitive processes 3. Implementational level MEANS Neural structures   #1074 ❤️Daniel Friedman  
subjective theory of value, labor theory of value The subjective theory of value (STV) is an economic theory for explaining how the value of goods and services are not only set but also how they can fluctuate over time. The contrasting system is typically known as the labor theory of value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value   #1058 ❤️our group  
0-three mindsepisodic memorysemantic memory Semantic memory vs. Episodic Memory "Interdependence of episodic and semantic memory: Evidence from neuropsychology" , 2010 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2952732/#:~:text=Semantic%20memory%20consists%20of%20a,(Tulving%2C%201972%20%2C%20p.   #1049 ❤️Andrew Pashea   2010
It is possible to distinguish between at least three types of anthropocentrism: perceptual anthropocentrism (which "characterizes paradigms informed by sense-data from human sensory organs"); descriptive anthropocentrism (which "characterizes paradigms that begin from, center upon, or are ordered around Homo sapiens / ‘the human'"); and normative anthropocentrism (which "characterizes paradigms that make assumptions or assertions about the superiority of Homo sapiens, its capacities, the primacy of its values, [or] its position in the universe").[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocentrism   #1043 ❤️William Pahl  
S.T.O.P. - The survival mnemonic S.T.O.P. means Stop/Stand, Thank/Think, Observe/Orientate, Positive Plan Priority. We stop and rethink: our environment, our community, our presence, our consumption, our natural resources and our basic requirements for life. Big questions, but we start small. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" (Lao Tzu)
NomadTown S.T.O.P.   #1010 ❤️MarcusPetz  
Cognitive behavioral therapythreesomefeelingsbehaviorsthoughts Californian Cognitive behaviorial therapists Albert Bonfil and Suraji Wagage describe a basic model of emotional experience in terms of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors:
  • Thoughts refer to the ways that we make sense of situations. Thoughts can take a number of forms, including verbal forms such as words, sentences, and explicit ideas, as well as non-verbal forms such as mental images. Thoughts are the running commentary we hear in our minds throughout our lives.
  • The term feelings here doesn’t refer to emotion, but the physiological changes that occur as a result of emotion. For instance, when we feel the emotion of anger, we have the feeling of our face flushing. When we feel the emotion of anxiety, we have the feelings of our heart pounding and muscles tensing. Feelings are the hard-wired physical manifestation of emotion.
  • Behaviors are simply the things we do. Importantly, behaviors are also the things we don’t do. For instance, we might bow out of a speaking engagement if we feel overwhelming anxiety. On the other hand, if instead we feel confident, we might actually seek out those sorts of engagements.
Albert Bonfil, Suraji Wagage. A Course in CBT Techniques: A Free Online CBT Workbook. Part 3: Applying the CBT Model of Emotions   #1007 ❤️William Pahl   		2021
Andreas Holmer Andreas Holmer
Systems Thinking (i.e., the act of considering whole systems) is a necessary skillset for effective structural leadership. So. What exactly is Systems Thinking?  1. Stocks and Flows. “Systems thinkers see the world as a collection of stocks along with the mechanisms for regulating the levels in the stocks by manipulating flows.” ― Donella H. Meadows At the most basic level, Systems Theory teaches us that complex systems are made up of stocks and flows. Take your bank account as an example. The state of that system is the amount of money you have in stock. And each time you make a deposit or a withdrawal, money either flows in or out of that stock — changing the system’s state over time. Trust is another good example. If trust was a battery (as Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke is fond of saying), that battery would either charge or discharge depending on your interactions with other people. And the state the system — its stock — is the amount of trust you managed to accumulate and retain over time.
 2. Feedback Loops. “You think that because you understand ‘one’ that you must therefore understand ‘two’ because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand ‘and.’” ― Donella H. Meadows Complex systems are complex because they contain stocks and flows on the one hand, and a myriad of interconnections on the other. Imagine, if you will, that you’ve manage to accumulate a bit of money in your bank account. If you’re like most people, you might use this as an excuse to spend a little more as well — buying that new phone you’ve been wanting. This “perceived state” is a negative feedback loop. The more money you have in your account, the more money you are likely to spend. And this is true for trust as well: the more trust you’ve got built up with another person, the more likely you are to ask them for favors. You save and you spend. The system self regulates.
  3. Leverage Points “If you define the goal of a society as GNP, that society will do its best to produce GNP. It will not produce welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency”. ― Donella H. Meadows Every system has a purpose. That is, its stocks, flows, and interconnections are organized to produce a certain outcome. You can influence that outcome by way of targeted interventions. In the case of the economy, you can for example tweak the interest rate. An increase will remove money from circulation (money flows into your account). A decrease will stimulate consumption (money flows out of your account). Whether you find this desirable or not depends on your point of view (good for you, bad for society). And that is the most potent leverage point of all: no intervention is as powerful as changing the intended output. Just imagine an economy designed for happiness rather than growth! I got my first exposure to Systems Thinking back in 2014 courtesy of Donella H. Meadows’ book Thinking in Systems: A Primer (from which I’ve sourced the above quotes). And if you want more information on leverage points, I can recommend this essay — also penned by Meadows and recommended by fellow Systems Thinker Christopher McCann (Thanks Chris!). Next week’s issue will seize on the above notion of “intended output” to talk about disruptive innovation. As it happens, Systems Thinking provides a great backdrop for understanding this illusive and much sought after ideal.
Andreas Holmer. Three Hallmarks of Systems Thinking   #1006 ❤️William Pahl   		2020
Sadruddin Boga0-fivesome Innovation and leadership consultant Sadruddin Boga
Good leadership constantly requires a careful, ongoing evaluation of a vision of the future to which one can navigate. Many leaders are guided by the mechanistic world-view that projects a future horizon from the consciousness of our past—a forecast. This approach of forecasting holds serious limitations that prevent us from predicting the distant horizons. This article outlines the three horizons for our journey into the future. To co-evolve synergistically and harmoniously with the emerging future, we need to steer at three levels of consciousness. The first two levels project the forecast of the first horizon and the foresight of the second horizon, respectively. The third level is the most challenging. It requires us to “be in the present” to enable us to foreknow the distant future. These trajectories to the three horizons are not separate or sequential. They are complimentary, iterative, and recursive.
 The First Horizon: Our past consciousness projects the forecast of the immediate future. Past becomes the stimulus for the future. It resides in the realm of mechanistic worldview and logical analysis—the logos—left-brain dominance. It is guided by problem-solving intervention.
 The Second Horizon: Insight or intuition, drawn from our mythic past—the collective unconscious—projects the foresight of a distant horizon. It resides in the holistic paradigm—the right-brain dominance and the mythos. It is facilitated by the interplay of polarities and paradoxes.
 The Third Horizon: Foreknowledge of the distant future can be experienced by being in the present—contraction of time and “self” (in humility), and expansion of “self” (in compassion). This resides in the co-evolutionary paradigm and mystical realm—the mystikos. It can be facilitated through an authentic dialogue.
Sadruddin Boga. Three Horizons: Shifting Vision to Lead to an Emerging Future   #1005 ❤️William Pahl   		2006
Allison Greenthree mindsdivergentconvergentlateral American educator Allison Green emphasizes
 Our ability and tendency to think critically and carefully takes precedence over content knowledge, not only in the classroom but in the wider world around us. There are thought to be three different modes of thinking: lateral, divergent, and convergent thought.
  • Convergent thinking (using logic). This type of thinking is also called critical, vertical, analytical, or linear thinking. It generally refers to the ability to give the “correct” answer to standard questions that do not require significant creativity. This includes most tasks in school and on standardized tests. Convergent thinking is the type of thinking that focuses on coming up with the single, well-established answer to a problem. When an individual is using convergent thinking to solve a problem, they consciously use standards or probabilities to make judgments.
  • Divergent thinking (using imagination). This type of thinking is also called creative or horizontal thinking. It is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions. When a student uses divergent thinking, thoughts typically occur in a spontaneous, free-flowing way. Many possible solutions are explored in a short amount of time, and unexpected connections are more easily drawn. After the process of divergent thinking has been completed, ideas and information are organized and structured using convergent thinking.
  • Lateral thinking (using both logic and imagination). This type of thinking is commonly referred to as “thinking outside the box.” It involves solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic. To understand lateral thinking, it is necessary to compare convergent and divergent thinking and build a working relationship between the two types.
Allison Green. Boston Tutoring Services. The Three Modes Of Thinking.   #1004 ❤️William Pahl   		2019
Vygotsky - collaboration, interaction, engaging - beliefs, behavior, culture - authentic learning environment   #996 ❤️Tony Budak  
0-three minds M1 - Gold (this is the fixed backing, or reference re-normalizatio).
M2 - Silver (more volatile, speculative?)
M3 - Balancing the peg/ration within and among M1 and M2 with respect to financial-monetary policy.
(Analogous in Cryptocurrency, slightly to BTC:ETH or BTC:Other).

Wikipedia: Bimetalism   #991 ❤️Daniel Friedman  
software0-three minds If your company is facing rapid change and needs to take advantage of emerging opportunities, the ICE Innovation® framework can bring together the business intelligence, curiosity and ability to execute already present within your teams to enable the flow of innovation.
Analysis by Daniel Friedman:
intelligence - M3 (wisdom/adaptive/well-formed modulation)
curiosity - M2 (learning)
ability - M1 (execution)
AGLX. Ice Innovation.   #989 ❤️DAF   		2024
Elon Musk0-three minds Galileo example
“In training AI, we need to make sure it’s as truthful as possible and it stays very curious.” Elon Musk
Daniel:
In training AI (M3 capacity building and training)
We need (ought) to make sure (Trust + verify)
it is as Truthful as possbile (M1 in terms of the Actualities)
and it stays very Curious (M2 in terms of uncertainties/questions).
Elon Musk. X.   #987 ❤️DAF   		2024
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Elliot Murphythree mindsstatistically-driven neural mechanisms for vertical syntaxlow-frequency phase code for horizontal semanticsplausible interplay Texan neuroscientist Elliot Murphy described a model relating connectionist and symbolic representations.
 Natural language syntax can serve as a major test for how to integrate two infamously distinct frameworks: symbolic representations and connectionist neural networks. Building on a recent neurocomputational architecture for syntax (ROSE), I discuss the prospects of reconciling the neural code for hierarchical ‘vertical’ syntax with linear and predictive ‘horizontal’ processes via a hybrid neurosymbolic model.
 It is my intention that the mathematical models provided here demonstrate a plausible interplay between a low-frequency phase code and statistically-driven neural mechanisms that can offer a framework where symbolic and connectionist representations can interface dynamically, leveraging the strengths of both paradigms.
Elliot Murphy. Shadow of the (Hierarchical) Tree: Reconciling Symbolic and Predictive Components of the Neural Code for Syntax.
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Edward Newmanthree mindssplitterlumpertruth English entomologist Edward Newman wrote in The Phytologist
  The time has arrived for discarding imaginary species, and the duty of doing this is as imperative as the admission of new ones when such are really discovered. The talents described under the respective names of 'hair-splitting' and 'lumping' are unquestionably yielding their power to the mightier power of Truth.
Wikipedia: Lumpers and splitters
Glenn Branch. Whence Lumpers and Splitters?   #945 ❤️MP   		1845
convivialism  The only legitimate policies, but also the only acceptable ethics, are those based on the following five principles: common naturality, common humanity, common sociality, legitimate individuation, creative opposition. These five principles are subordinate to the absolute imperative of hubris control.
Convivialist International. Manifestos.
Convivialist International. The Second Convivialist Manifesto: Towards a Post-Neoliberal World   #932 ❤️Hans-Florian Hoyer   		2020
Ptahhotepthree mindsless wiseequally wisemore wise The Maxims of Ptahhotep are attributed to the Egyptian vizier Ptahhotep (2400 BCE) but were likely composed during the Twelth Dynasty (1991-1802 BCE). They are wisdom literature that teaches living by Maat, encompassing truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice.
  • If thou find an arguer talking, one that is well disposed and wiser than thou, let thine arms fall, bend thy back, be not angry with him if he agree (?) not with thee. Refrain from speaking evilly; oppose him not at any time when he speaketh. If he address thee as one ignorant of the matter, thine humbleness shall bear away his contentions.
  • If thou find an arguer talking, thy fellow, one that is within thy reach, keep not silence when he saith aught that is evil; so shalt thou be wiser than he. Great will be the applause on the part of the listeners, and thy name shall be good in the knowledge of princes.
  • If thou find an arguer talking, a poor man, that is to say not thine equal, be not scornful toward him because he is lowly. Let him alone; then shall he confound himself. Question him not to please thine heart, neither pour out thy wrath upon him that is before thee; it is shameful to confuse a mean mind. If thou be about to do that which is in thine heart, overcome it as a thing rejected of princes.
The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni
Wikipedia: The Maxims of Ptahhotep   #931 ❤️WP   		-1900
Since the creation, it is believed by the Abenaki that the world has gone through three separate ages, defined by humanity and its relationship with the other animals. First, there is the Ancient Age, where humans and animals are viewed as equal, followed by the Golden Age, where humans begin to separate themselves from being like the other animals. Finally, there is the Present Age, which is marked by the current status of humans being completely separate from the rest of the animals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenaki_mythology   #930 ❤️William Pahl  
The Great Spirit is an omnipresent supreme life force, generally conceptualized as a supreme being or god, in the traditional religious beliefs of many, but not all, indigenous cultures in Canada and the United States. Interpretations of it vary between cultures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Spirit   #929 ❤️William Pahl  
Brian Swimmeonesomeuniverse Evolutionary cosmologist Brian Swimme offers a grand view of the cosmos, including meaning, purpose and value.
 If you look at the disasters happening on our planet, it's because the cosmos is not understood as sacred ... a way out of our difficulty is a journey into the universe as sacred.
 This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebushes, giraffes, and humans.
Wikipedia: Brian Swimme
Susan Bridle. Comprehensive Compassion: An Interview with Brian Swimme.   #898 ❤️KZ   		1990
Catholicism0-three mindsbodyintellectwill https://www.catholiccrossreference.online/catechism/#!/search/1703-1709/fn/1703:5
1703 Endowed with "a spiritual and immortal" soul,5 the human person is "the only creature on earth that God has willed for its own sake."6 From his conception, he is destined for eternal beatitude. 5. GS 14 § 2. 6. GS 24 § 3. 30 339 (all) 1704 The human person participates in the light and power of the divine Spirit. By his reason, he is capable of understanding the order of things established by the Creator. By free will, he is capable of directing himself toward his true good. He finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good."7 7. GS 15 § 2. 1730 (all) 1705 By virtue of his soul and his spiritual powers of intellect and will, man is endowed with freedom, an "outstanding manifestation of the divine image."   #896 ❤️MP  
testing   #841 ❤️Andrius  
Mind is information processor. Cognition is computation. Consciousness is computation. In philosophy of mind, the computational theory of mind (CTM), also known as computationalism, is a family of views that hold that the human mind is an information processing system and that cognition and consciousness together are a form of computation. It is closely related to functionalism, a broader theory that defines mental states by what they do rather than what they're made of.[1] Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts (1943) were the first to suggest that neural activity is computational. They argued that neural computations explain cognition.[2] The theory was proposed in its modern form by Hilary Putnam in 1967, and developed by his PhD student, philosopher, and cognitive scientist Jerry Fodor in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.[3][4] It was later criticized in the 1990s by Putnam himself, John Searle, and others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_theory_of_mind   #824 ❤️William Pahl  
Weak.. Not really 3 minds.. 6 stages.. Kohlberg's approach begins with the assumption that humans are intrinsically motivated to explore and become competent at functioning in their environments. In social development, this leads us to imitate role models we perceive as competent and to look to them for validation.[16] Thus our earliest childhood references on the rightness of our and others' actions are adult role models with whom we are in regular contact. Kohlberg also held that there are common patterns of social life, observed in universally occurring social institutions, such as families, peer groups, structures, and procedures for clan or society decision-making, and cooperative work for mutual defense and sustenance. Endeavoring to become competent participants in such institutions, humans in all cultures exhibit similar actions and thoughts concerning the relations of self, others, and the social world. Furthermore, the more one is prompted to have empathy for the other person, the more quickly one learns to function well in cooperative human interactions. [17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg   #823 ❤️William Pahl  
Sigmund Freud The id, ego, and super-ego are three aspects of the mind Freud believed to comprise a person's personality. Freud believed people are "simply actors in the drama of [their] own minds, pushed by desire, pulled by coincidence. Wikipedia: Freud's psychoanalytic theories   #822 ❤️William Pahl  
Paul D. MacLean0-three mindsemotionsrationalinstincts The triune brain is a model of the evolution of the vertebrate forebrain and behavior, proposed by the American physician and neuroscientist Paul D. MacLean in the 1960s. The triune brain consists of the reptilian complex (basal ganglia), the paleomammalian complex (limbic system), and the neomammalian complex (neocortex), viewed each as independently conscious, and as structures sequentially added to the forebrain in the course of evolution. According to the model, the basal ganglia are in charge of primal instincts, the limbic system is in charge of emotions, and the neocortex is responsible for objective or rational thoughts.
 The human forebrain evolved to its great size while retaining features of three basic formations that reflect an ancestral relationship to reptiles, early mammals, and recent mammals. The three neural assemblies… are radically different in structure and chemistry, and in an evolutionary sense, countless generations apart. Psychological and behavioral functions depend on the interplay of three quite different mentalities. The three evolutionary formations might be popularly regarded as three interconnected biological computers, each having its own special intelligence, its own subjectivity, its own sense of time and space, and its own memory, motor, and other functions.
Wikipedia: Triune brain
A.B. Butler. Triune Brain Concept: A Comparative Evolutionary Perspective.
Patrick R Steffen, Dawson Hedges, Rebekka Matheson. The Brain Is Adaptive Not Triune: How the Brain Responds to Threat, Challenge, and Change.   #821 ❤️William Pahl  
Baruch Spinoza Baruch Spinoza
I have laboured carefully not to mock, not to lament, and not to detest, but to understand human actions.
Works of Spinoza, A Political Treatise, translation by Elwes, Vol. 1, p. 288.
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John Kekesfoursomeknow basic assumptionsknow what actions to performknow the significance of basic assumptions American ethicist John Kekes observed that knowledge involved in wisdom concerns means to good ends.
  • knowledge of means is knowing what actions to perform, which is relatively simple
  • knowledge of good ends is knowledge of the significance of the most basic assumptions of human experience, which mark off the limits to human possibility
  • basic assumption include that I have a body with limbs and head, there exist other people and many familiar material objects, I was born, have matured, am aging, will die, I perceive the world through my senses, I am capable of thought, feeling, imagination, will, I can learn from the past and plan for the future.
John Kekes. Wisdom. American Philosophical Quarterly.
Wikiversity: Wisdom: Defining Wisdom   #771 ❤️LB   		1983
John Kekesthree mindswants of human situationideals of good lifemodification of wants with regard to ideals American ethicist John Kekes argued
 What a wise man knows, therefore, is how to construct a pattern that, given the human situation, is likely to lead to a good life. This knowledge is not esoteric, for it is within everyone's reach; nor does it require a special skill or talent, for it concerns the recognition of possibilities and limitations that are the same for everyone. But it does take self control, enabling a person to modify his wants in accordance with his ideals; self-knowledge, for knowing what his wants and ideals are; breadth and depth; constancy, so that adversity will not deflect him from his commitments; and the hierarchical ranking of his commitments, for judging what is important to him.
John Kekes. Wisdom. American Philosophical Quarterly.
Wikiversity: Wisdom: Defining Wisdom   #770 ❤️LB   		1983
Confuciusthree mindsknowingnot knowingadmitting whether you know or not Chinese thinker Confucius, in the Analects, teaches
 The Master said, "You, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
  子曰：「由！誨女知之乎？知之為知之，不知為不知，是知也。」
Confucius. Analects. Wei Zheng 17.
Wikiversity: Wisdom: Defining Wisdom   #765 ❤️LB   		-350
Alan Wattsthree mindsorganicmechanicaldramatic English lecturer Alan Watts spoke of three theories of nature.
  • 1) Western Mechanical theory: ...nature is a machine or an artifact. We inherit this from the Hebrews who believed that nature was made by God in somewhat the same way as a potter makes a pot out of clay, or a carpenter makes a table out of wood.
  • 2) Hindu Dramatic theory: the world is māyā (माया) ... magic, illusion, art, play. All the world’s a stage. ... all sense experiences are vibrations of the Self—not just your self, but the Self—and all of us share this Self in common because it is pretending to be all of us.
  • 3) Chinese Organic theory: zìrán (自然) ... what happens of itself ... the principle of the Tao is spontaneity ... There is no principle that forces things to behave the way they do. It is a completely democratic theory of nature. ... not interfering with the course of events ... if you can’t trust yourself, you can’t trust anybody
Man In Nature. The Tao of Philosophy.   #733 ❤️WP   		1965
Alan Wattsthree mindsI knowI know that I knowI know that I know that I know English philosophical entertainer Alan Watts mused
There was a young man who said,“Though
It seems that I know that I know.
What I would like to see
Is the I that knows me
When I know that I know that I know.”
Man In Nature. The Tao of Philosophy.   #732 ❤️WP   		1965
Leon Festingerthree mindshabitnotice discrepancyreduce discrepancy by updating cognition or altering action American social psychologist Leon Festinger in A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance described how people feel mental unease when their habits or routines are disturbed. For example, a person may discover somebody else has taken the seat where they usually sit. The person alleviates this discomfort by adjusting either their actions or their beliefs to restore consistency.
Wikipedia: Cognitive dissonance   #722 ❤️LB   		1957
0-three mindssensationreflection John Locke. Book II explains that every idea is derived from experience either by sensation—i.e. direct sensory information—or reflection—i.e. "the perception of the operations of our own mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got."
Wikipedia: An_Essay_Concerning_Human_Understanding   #706 ❤️AK   		1689
Christopher Alexander. Three minds. Pattern involves optimization, rule of thumb...   #702 ❤️Andrius  
Jacques Lacan's 3 orders Real, Symbolic, and Imaginary
Wikipedia: Trichotomy: Examples of Philosophical Trichotomies   #696 ❤️Andrius  
Important trichotomies discussed by Aquinas include the causal principles (agent, patient, act).
Wikipedia: Causality
Wikipedia: Trichotomy (philosophy)   #693 ❤️Andrius  
testing   #692 ❤️Andrius  
Educationfoursomepsychomotorcognitiveaffective A committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom developed Bloom's taxonomy as a framework for categorizing educational goals. Learning objectives are divided into three broad domains.
  • cognitive (knowledge-based) with six levels: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation
  • affective (emotion-based) with five levels: Receiving, Responding, Valuing, Organizing, Characterizing
  • psychomotor (action-based), categorized in 1972 by Elizabeth Simpson with seven levels: Perception, Set, Guided response, Mechanism, Complex overt response, Adaptation, Origination
Wikipedia: Bloom's taxonomy   #623 ❤️MP   		1956
Kent Peacock Kent Peacock distinguished three kinds of ecological fitness, which define survival in terms of interactions between organisms and environments. They are the abilities to:
  • compete,
  • cooperate,
  • construct,
Kent A. Peacock. The three faces of ecological fitness. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 42 (2011) 99-105   #358 ❤️LW   		2011
William Blakethree mindsexperienceinnocencesolidarity English artist and poet William Blake authored and illustrated two volumes of poems which he combined as "Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul".
  • Songs of Innocence show children's natural, happy, innocent, naïve, vulnerable outlook. They are reassuring and place hope in the spirit. Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy & warm; So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.
  • Songs of Experience show the reality, cruelty, severity, abandonment of the world, learned from living in it. Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand?
  • In both collections there is a call to solidarity, brotherhood and sisterhood, to respond, make good and right. For where’er the sun does shine, And where’er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.
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