Glossary
- Confusion
- A state where we have very vague ideas, often containing opposites. Sometimes this is a part of the natural learning process, often it is introduced by others, either innocently passing on their own confusions, or deliberately trying to get us into the state of confusion, where we are often more easily manipulated.
- Connections
- Relationships, of all different types both between people, places and things in the physical world, and between the ideas, images and words in our minds.
Example: The growth, health and fulfillment of organizations may be similar to the growth, health and fulfillment of individuals. Using this connection, we might look for ways to transfer and/or translate techniques that have helped individuals and families to help organizations, and also to transfer and/or translate techniques that have helped organizations to help individuals and families. Recently I have been comparing or connecting the works of the Horse Whisperer, Monty Roberts, and the Dog Whisperer, Cesar Milan to correcting unbalanced humans, people with "Issues".
- Contexts
- The environments or surrounding circumstances that exist for all real-world events, people and processes, but is absent for many abstract concepts.
Examples: -
- A growing economy, or a depression.
- A great day, or a bad hair day.
- A new market, or an established market.
- Before or after budget approvals.
- Being awake, dreaming, or asleep.
- A day of sunshine after many days of rain.
- With a full stomach or an empty one.
- Being on earth with gravity, or being in a spaceship without it.
- Distinctions
- Particular values or ranges of values, from within a range of possible values that reduce our confusion or uncertainty and move us towards certainty or confidence in pursuing a particular goal or purpose.
Example: To pasteurize milk, it is not enough to let it get warm, as it is when is comes from the cow, or to simply leave it in the hot sun for a while, but rather a specific temperature must be maintained for a specific period of time to accomplish the purpose of killing certain undesirable bacteria. Cooking recipes call for a certain temperature for a certain amount of time.
- ESS - Experience Sharing System
- An Experience Sharing System collects and shares Individuals' Experiences. It is similar to an Expert system, in that it serves as a repository for a certain domain of knowledge.
It differs, however, in Content, Purpose, and Philosophy:
| Criteria |
Expert System |
Experience Sharing System |
| Source of Knowledge |
An individual or panel of "Experts" |
All users can potentially add new knowledge |
| Number of "Answers" |
Usually 1 |
Many, each with pointers to supporting experiments |
| Contents |
Approved Answers |
Questions and Answers |
| Validating Criteria |
Authority |
Experiment |
| Purpose |
Distribute existing answers |
Accumulate new Knowledge |
| Knowledge creators |
Authorities |
Individuals |
- Individuology
- The study of Individuals AS Individuals, NOT as members of a group. Much of current research into people psychology uses statistics as the primary investigation strategy, but statistics is about groups, psychology is about individuals. Some of these tools already exist but are not popular; some new techniques need to be created.
- Intrepreneur
- An entrepreneur within an organization.
- KnCells
- A knowledge architecture and process that:
- Stores a basic unit of meaning.
- Separates meaning from cultural and disciplinary languages.
- Enables Individuals to create incrementally more valid & valuable mental models.
- Enables Individuals to see through the Confusions others try to force on us.
- Enables groups and organizations to share and exchange personal models and values with greater precision and accuracy in order to build incrementally more useful and valued shared models.
- Facilitates the accurate transfer of meaning among people with different values, disciplinary viewpoints and vocabularies, facilitating true inter-disciplinary research.
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- Knowledge
- Distinctions and Connections Organized for a Purpose (or Purposes), within a Context (or Contexts).
- Paradigm
- A paradigm is a 'whole mindset' for approaching certain types of problems or situations. It usually contains certain rules, often unspoken yet very firm, for how to think, or question things, ideas, and/or people. A paradigm often defines, subtly, what questions can and can't be asked and even what specific words can & cannot be used.
Examples:
- Being in a grocery store
- Being at a board meeting
- or a wedding
- or at Aunt Nellie's house
- or in court
- or on death row
- or on spring break
- Political Correctness - has many questions that can't be asked
and specific words that are not allowed.
- Purposes
- The desires or intentions of an individual or organization to achieve specific, measurable goals, either target goals or process goals.
Example: My personal overall goal is to significantly improve education, specifically education for living, which some call psychology.
Some specific target-able goals (i.e. measurable, reachable milestones) are:
- Create and Publish (2 goals) a working definition of knowledge.
- Create and Publish (2 goals) a working definition of knowledge transfer, i.e. the process by which we transfer ideas from one persons mind to another person's mind.
- Start an Experience Sharing System (KnBase) to collect knowledge about individual differences, how great they are, how much or little they affect the transmission of ideas from mind to mind, strengths and weaknesses of various languages, effective learning techniques different people have found, etc.
- Create a "place" for all this to happen.
Some specific process goals: (i.e. ways of doing things)
- Improve my own ability to learn, create and share every day.
- Improve, daily, my respect for all individuals, even those who do not fit my previous comfortable prejudices.
- Seek to compete with my own personal yesterday, instead of others.
- Improve, daily, my ability to bring what I've learned and created to share with others at every opportunity, however little or big, and whether in person or electronically.
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Last Updated: Wednesday, Apr. 20, 2011 4:44 PM
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