Implications of Brain Modules
I didn’t find any new module reports this week. So I will speculate a bit about the implications of brain modules for cognitive engineering, particularly in connection with my blog about homework.
There are two connections. The obvious connection lies in how we could use the modular model to assist in homework. The other lies in how I am explicitly using to modular model to write the blog.
Each item is written in the role of a particular head team character. I see this as a kind of division of labor and think I have always done it without much attention. Except in the job of creativity. The standard advice in group processes and brainstorming is that creating and evaluating do not mix. So I don’t mix them. And when I am thinking of new ideas, I don’t pay much attention to people who tell me what is wrong with them.
I started being explicit because I noticed it would fit well with the writing. Now I am noticing some useful results of the increased awareness. Today I was writing as the Engineer. I noted that I wanted a better title. That did not distract me because I call on the Un and the Networker for titles. They work any time, including when I am asleep. So I can leave that job to them and see what they come up with.
The situation reminds me of the early days of time sharing on computers. Time sharing requires the computer to save the current state of a job and swap in the (previously saved) state of another job. The first timesharing computers spent most of their time managing the swaps. Inefficient? Maybe module shifting is inefficient, too.
Of course, module shifting might also have advantages. Modules may get tired. That may the process underlying span of attention.
(Aside: My Un and my Networker just broke in to point out that Spam of Attention would make a good title for something if I could just think of something to put under it. Perhaps something about distractions. Maybe distractions about irrelevant titles.)
Perhaps there is an optimal period for using a particular module. Not necessarily in minutes, possibly in some units of processing activity. Or in terms of closure.
The term closure brings me back to homework. (Perhaps the module I was using to write the above is tired.) I found definitions with a Google search for define:closure.
In Gestalt psychology the term refers to the way that we fill in gaps where there is missing information in a stimulus.
In the analysis of texts, the term refers to ideological closure, which means the strategies used in the text to lead the reader to make sense of the text according to a particular ideological framework. The idea of ideological closure is useful because it leads us to examine how a text has been constructed to lead to a particular reading and exclude other possible readings.
When the Customer is satisfied that an incident has been resolved.
Bringing a narrative to a conclusion that is satisfactory. Proper closure accounts for all the clues and mysteries, leaves no stray ends, makes themes clear, and gives readers a sense that order is again in sight.
Settlement: something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; "the finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"
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Closure seems to have important meanings to people. I was going to use it to lead into a discussion about goals and closure. But I will stop now. Without closure. I will understand more about closure next week.
There are two connections. The obvious connection lies in how we could use the modular model to assist in homework. The other lies in how I am explicitly using to modular model to write the blog.
Each item is written in the role of a particular head team character. I see this as a kind of division of labor and think I have always done it without much attention. Except in the job of creativity. The standard advice in group processes and brainstorming is that creating and evaluating do not mix. So I don’t mix them. And when I am thinking of new ideas, I don’t pay much attention to people who tell me what is wrong with them.
I started being explicit because I noticed it would fit well with the writing. Now I am noticing some useful results of the increased awareness. Today I was writing as the Engineer. I noted that I wanted a better title. That did not distract me because I call on the Un and the Networker for titles. They work any time, including when I am asleep. So I can leave that job to them and see what they come up with.
The situation reminds me of the early days of time sharing on computers. Time sharing requires the computer to save the current state of a job and swap in the (previously saved) state of another job. The first timesharing computers spent most of their time managing the swaps. Inefficient? Maybe module shifting is inefficient, too.
Of course, module shifting might also have advantages. Modules may get tired. That may the process underlying span of attention.
(Aside: My Un and my Networker just broke in to point out that Spam of Attention would make a good title for something if I could just think of something to put under it. Perhaps something about distractions. Maybe distractions about irrelevant titles.)
Perhaps there is an optimal period for using a particular module. Not necessarily in minutes, possibly in some units of processing activity. Or in terms of closure.
The term closure brings me back to homework. (Perhaps the module I was using to write the above is tired.) I found definitions with a Google search for define:closure.
In Gestalt psychology the term refers to the way that we fill in gaps where there is missing information in a stimulus.
In the analysis of texts, the term refers to ideological closure, which means the strategies used in the text to lead the reader to make sense of the text according to a particular ideological framework. The idea of ideological closure is useful because it leads us to examine how a text has been constructed to lead to a particular reading and exclude other possible readings.
When the Customer is satisfied that an incident has been resolved.
Bringing a narrative to a conclusion that is satisfactory. Proper closure accounts for all the clues and mysteries, leaves no stray ends, makes themes clear, and gives readers a sense that order is again in sight.
Settlement: something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; "the finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"
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Closure seems to have important meanings to people. I was going to use it to lead into a discussion about goals and closure. But I will stop now. Without closure. I will understand more about closure next week.
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