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conceptual models

“…a high-level description of how a system is organized and operates” (Johnson and Henderson, 2002, p. 26)

Metaphors and analogies
Concepts that people are exposed to through the system task-domain objects, their attributes, and operations (e.g. saving, revisiting, organising)
Relationships and mappings between these concepts

shared models

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intersubjectivity

we all are ultimately one subject, have one perspective
the only reliable measures are intersubjective, combinatory of our fragments
peer review is most reliable form of data as it produces emergent, convergent knowledge

Mentions

“When we are with others, we are always something other than what we are when we are alone.” ⤴️ All Together Now Collective Knowledge, Collective Narratives, and Architectures of Participation
“In the phenomenological approach he describes in Being and Time, Heidegger distinguishes between Da-sein, being in the world, and Mitda-sein, the state of being-together-in-the-world” ⤴️
“In discussing how we arrive at consensus, Habermas writes of “linguistically generated intersubjectivity,” the use of language to create a subject that is not the self, but subjectivity shared with others” ⤴️ ^d8a97a
“Luhmann, in Social Systems, argues that people are not society, but parts of its environment” ⤴️
“whenever people are collaborating on a project of knowledge sharing or creative production, they are collaborating not only with other people, but with a system which they, the other participants, and the communicative environment help to create.” ⤴️
“In networked computer environments in particular, collaboration is always both collaboration with other people and with systems.” ⤴️

tools for thought

what were once called ‘productivity tools’ extending into general purpose brain-task-driven ecosystems, becoming more aligned with personal human goals over capitalist efficiency

can be literally a piece of paper, but here refers generally to software and its surrounding community

extension - ‘medium’ for thought - mnemotechniques and mnemotechnologies

some community-oriented/responsive tool-development still functioning as a business

Resources

anything to do with Zettlekasten
notes in your peripheral vision
Tools for better thinking | Untools
How can we develop tools for transformative thought?

structured thinking

Notes

deliberate thinking patterns, thought exercises
schemas
systems thinking
journalling, free-writing and self-reflection
thought exercise as play, the art of discussion
CBT is not a catch-all, CBT is a specific therapy for specific sorts of problems, CBT is often ineffective for autistic people
how often are our thoughts structured and when do we ‘freely’ think, does this differ by profession and occupation, or other factors eg neuro arrangement, does this link to determinism vs free will

mental models

mental models are only as good as they are subjectively useful, rather than objectively true
whilst interjective truth is important in establishing a model that will be repeatedly useful to many, it is ultimately up to an individual to use the models that are most consistently true in their own experience
I’m interested in finding which models I’m using without conscious choice and to examine which are actually useful to me