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Knowledge Visualization: Observation 32. A model of cognition and a way to navigate it. Dan Roam. 2010

April 03, 2024 Mark Rubin Season 1 Episode 32
Knowledge Visualization: Observation 32. A model of cognition and a way to navigate it. Dan Roam. 2010
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Knowledge Visualization: Observation 32. A model of cognition and a way to navigate it. Dan Roam. 2010
Apr 03, 2024 Season 1 Episode 32
Mark Rubin

Observation:

The story highlights the evolution of raw data into increasingly complex forms: noise, data, information, knowledge, wisdom, and character. This progression shows how unstructured noise can transform into valuable wisdom and personal character through various stages of organization and understanding. The story also explores the future potential of technology, like Neuralink, to visualize and share human thoughts, enhancing empathy and reducing conflict.

The Lesson:

Understanding and organizing information can transform basic data into profound wisdom and character, potentially revolutionizing human communication and empathy through technology.

How this is Helpful:

  1. Organization: Understanding information's transformation helps organize thoughts.
  2. Communication: Visualizing knowledge can improve how we share ideas.
  3. Empathy: Advanced technologies might enhance empathy and reduce conflicts.


Questions for Reflection:

  1. Noise to Wisdom: How do I transform daily noise into meaningful wisdom?
  2. Technological Impacts: How might future technologies influence the way I understand others?
  3. Character Building: In what ways does my gathered knowledge shape my character?


For more ‘Practical Dreaming’, visit https://www.markianrubin.life/practical-dreaming 

Show Notes Transcript

Observation:

The story highlights the evolution of raw data into increasingly complex forms: noise, data, information, knowledge, wisdom, and character. This progression shows how unstructured noise can transform into valuable wisdom and personal character through various stages of organization and understanding. The story also explores the future potential of technology, like Neuralink, to visualize and share human thoughts, enhancing empathy and reducing conflict.

The Lesson:

Understanding and organizing information can transform basic data into profound wisdom and character, potentially revolutionizing human communication and empathy through technology.

How this is Helpful:

  1. Organization: Understanding information's transformation helps organize thoughts.
  2. Communication: Visualizing knowledge can improve how we share ideas.
  3. Empathy: Advanced technologies might enhance empathy and reduce conflicts.


Questions for Reflection:

  1. Noise to Wisdom: How do I transform daily noise into meaningful wisdom?
  2. Technological Impacts: How might future technologies influence the way I understand others?
  3. Character Building: In what ways does my gathered knowledge shape my character?


For more ‘Practical Dreaming’, visit https://www.markianrubin.life/practical-dreaming 

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My name is Mark Rubin, and I'm a dream weaver. I hope these widgets help you weave your dreams into reality. This story is about visualizing knowledge. And I'm going to talk about this in terms of a framework I have for visualizing the thoughts in my mind and navigating them. first talk about the continuum from noise to character. So first, there is noise in the universe. And when that noise can be measured, it is called data. And when data is measured in a way that is structured, through some kind of pattern, it becomes information. And so now we have noise, turning into data, and data turning into information. The next thing is if information is sampled, over a period of time, and stories can be created from this information, it becomes knowledge. And over time, knowledge can be refined and distilled. And that's called wisdom. So wisdom is simplified knowledge. And that's why when you read old books, or sort of look at things that have been written a long time ago, and then refined and refined and refined, the wisest things are the shortest. Like, they're gonna be like one gigantic book of knowledge. And the one sentence summary of that book is the wisdom. And after wisdom, comes character. And that's more of a of a human characteristic, with wisdom, which is the distillation of knowledge, I think that it becomes clear that living a life without a sense of purpose, or, or even values is less meaningful than pursuing character. And so there's a way to organize information, both inside a human mind and outside of human mind, visually, with a coordinate system that captures this idea from six simultaneous perspectives, which I explained on earlier videos about energy and information systems. And around this time of this story, I was thinking about a way to generalize my ideas about energy and information. And what's essentially the underlying relationships between these six perspectives in a spatial model. And what I realized is more than just defining a system as energy information and roles, which maps six perspectives of consciousness, which is, who are what am I looking at? How many are there? Where are they? When are they How did they get here? And why is that if those things are sampled at snapshots in time, you have a comprehensive view of a system. So this was energy and information systems previous video of this. But that is just the architecture of the structure of the relationships between the elements that make up a system, which is good to know. Because this describes things like a marble rolling down a ramp, or money flowing through a business for everything I've ever seen. But knowledge visualization is a way to navigate it, and map it to a coordinate system. So it's a structured approach for organizing all six perspectives that snapshots in time and then putting the components of those snapshots in a coordinate system that can be navigated and is a model of cognition, dynamic model of cognition, I suppose. So what I'm describing here with knowledge visualization, is a framework and a way to know things and visualize the knowledge that exists in an energy and information system. And this is useful for me, because it's how I process information and weave these stories together. But more importantly, as human beings advanced technologies to implement interfaces to the human brain, this is a way to take the information in those data streams inside a mind is currently today in 2023. And the 2023 able to be transmitted from a mind through the air to a computer. One example, this is a company called neural link, when Elon Musk's companies, they're doing this today, like this exists today. And what I'm saying is that the data that's in that wireless stream that's being broadcast, through the air to a computer and back, can be visualized, intercepted and visualized in this way, and mapped to a coordinate system, and could be navigated in this way that I'm describing. And also thinking forward some years is it will be possible for two people to interface minds in this visual way not to go mad scientist on this. But if you believe that there are six perspectives, of cognition, and that everything fits in that. And if you believe there is a coordinate system that could be utilized to organize those six perspectives. And if you believe that those six perspectives can be mapped to pictures, six types of pictures, then if you believe all three of those things, the next thing is if you believe that this information exists in the human mind, and that information can now in current technology, be intercepted and broadcast to a computer, then it will be possible for another person to both look with their eyes at a computer screen and see the six perspectives and another person's mind. But going one step past that, if the second human mind also had this brain chip called neuro link, and the six images could be broadcast directly into the other person's mind, then the other person would have a way to interface with another person visually spatially, and send thoughts back and forth wirelessly in this visual way, it's a visual representation of what's happening. And if that is possible, then everyone on the planet could be connected together in this hive mind, you know, scenario. And this, I think, would be advantageous as a species to connect people together in this way because it bypasses empathy. So empathy is a way for people to feel other people's feelings and empathy comes through a lens of stories, that people believe people hear stories, and they believe stories, and that creates a framework for empathy for other people. And when other people have different stories, then there's less empathy in general is the observation, the observation, then generally, people can connect with other people that believe different stories in different ways. And it creates, you know, conflicts, it creates the potential for conflicts when people aren't connected through empathy, it creates the potential for conflicts. But in this scenario, what I'm describing with with current technology, we're pretty close to this idea that I think that if people could gain other people's perspectives through this mechanism, I think it would help. The idea is that everyone has a different perspective, everyone, everyone has different stories, everyone has different definitions of words, and feelings and everything. And we use these words in the air that I'm propelling from my body right now vibrating the air, sending electrical signals into your mind, through a variety of channels, sight, sound, innuendo, flesh, and tone, all these things, and you're making a whole story about what I'm saying and you're trying to like or maybe you're on trial, anyway, if you are understanding or trying or not, whatever you're experiencing, watching this right now. There's a story in your mind that is forming, because I'm using calories from the sun to move move this information from my mind and deed her mind now, that's an inefficient process. And fraught with all kinds of errors in stories of what you might be thinking like my like, reason for doing that, like whatever it is, like having your mind right now doesn't match what's in my mind. Especially why stories, the infinite number of why stories. So, this creates the potential for miscommunication, misunderstanding and conflict. And so knowledge visualization is a way to use these models that I use to to navigate life and scale them. So we could communicate better and share our knowledge, share our noise or data or information or knowledge, or wisdom and our character so that we can get along better as a species. So I am working on maybe 2028 deploying this idea in different ways. I have created software called visualiser that does what I'm describing here. But for business, I think there's a chance that this can be scaled in different ways because what I'm describing for business with money moving through a business or a marble rolling down a ramp, or an idea, that becomes a story that becomes something that appears in the real world is, I think, an important way for people to communicate