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Some people even drive their careers, businesses and lives off a cliff interacting with it.  They think they are getting things done, but they aren't getting anything done at all. The way to fight this is situational awareness. The little part of your brain that is ALWAYS asking you the questions: Where am I and what am I doing? Am I progressing towards my goal? Am I in any danger or is there a way to get to the goal faster?

A set of overarching goals that guide your behavior.  To apply this to online multi-tasking you need to train a part of your brain to ask these questions.

You can simulate that with: Asking a friend to lambast you every 10-30 minutes with these questions until you nail it every time.   Setting a random alarm that forces you to lift yourself out of your multi-tasking stupor to ask yourself these questions. Or, and this is the most difficult way, do your entire scan with intentional, conscious thought.  Justifying each and every step until it becomes second nature.

awareness (such as meditation)

help people learn how to identify and de-identify with various groups, by allowing them to experience the variety of social contexts.

Roland's

not only be critical thinking but systems thinking

help people become more self-dependent.

experiences are organized for children from the early age

raise the level of critical thinking

Education is liberating.

The notion of indirect reciprocity could be important here: doing things for those groups without expecting to get a return, but setting an example

reject the notion of tribes or of people being permanently and essentially bad and extremist, and to be welcoming and kind

Bodil's

I can work with other communities which are open, tolerant and welcoming.

Better distribution of resources.

reputation and trust

know how to build trust and create cooperation, we should know something about breaking bad patterns

knowledge about social dilemmas

“growth mindset”

David's

separating fiction from fact,

interaction in order to reveal the "true" characteristics of inform

physical security, enough to eat, a place to sleep, freedom from threat.

John's

little can be done at the level of the individual, other than being aware that our appreciation of ideas, and our tendency to engage in counterproductive behavior may be due to forces other than the ideas themselves.

becoming aware of our own weaknesses with regard to absorbing new information

it is possible to gather individuals into a super organism that is less vulnerable to being victimized by false or misleading information,

we need access to information and skill in critical thinking

Hermano's

My political answer is internationalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalism_(politics).

High level of material, political, physical, psychological etc personal independance

My cultural answer is to displace the ubiquitous narrative of competition by this narrative of cooperative

traces of trustworthiness online,

tactical tool is the internet.

empowers the common man to act at multiple levels, assuming responsibility for all the nested groups to which he would belong.

Inger's

 Fighting discrimination

stereotypes

negative stereotypes

experience the feeling of discrimination in order to fight it.

Discrimination starts with stereotypes that turn into prejudice, and the individual becomes a member of a group that is dehmanised and stripped of human qualities.

Elena's

Meditation skills

life satisfaction

transferring an ultimate level of governance and common legislation to structures above nation states

Practices of integration of spirit-mind-body

value of own life and personal voe not to destroy self

Calisa's

only possible escape route is to get a glimpse of life on the outside, to see that there are different ways to live one's life, to understand that there are choices.

only through the glimpse can the child even begin to contemplate the notion of breaking the "pre-wiring"

glimpse does not guarantee escape

 shine your light brightly:

If there are children in your life, invest in them

Sahil's

Stay informed about the big, complex world-shaping issues

Use technology to express yourself beyond your home and workplace

same forces producing the 'dark' forms of social cooperation mentioned above - compliance, conformance, solidarity - are perhaps the same forces behind 'good' cooperation.

continually trying to re-imagine our 'imagined communities'

the more connected we are, the more we'll be forced to recognize others' interests as our own.

might include: cultural traits and norms based on morality (i.e. religion), integration of market economies, promoting greater free-flow of people/ideas, promoting denser urban centers, open access to information, monogamy??, anti-nepotism norms, cooperative higher institutions (with ability to manage laws/reputations/punishment).

Luis'

 We are “pre-wired” to cooperate within our tribe

impact of group identity

“manifold and profound”

make group identity salient

redefining the boundaries of the group to include more people is the best opportunity for change

Once you include everyone in the group, you find ways to encourage interactions among both sub-groups,

narcos manage to stay loyal and cooperate within their cartel when competing against other cartels with equally loyal members.

discourage cooperation inside the cartel groups

Assurance game, because one narco will only fight if the other fights, and will defect if the other defects

The key issue in the Assurance Game is whether we can trust each other.

Our insatiable need to tune into information – at the expense of savoring our downtime – is a form of “work” (something I call “insecurity work”

five potential mindsets and solutions for consideration:

1. Rituals for unplugging.


We need some rules. When it comes to scheduling, we will need to allocate blocks of time for deep thinking. Maybe you will carve out a 1-2 hour block on your calendar every day for taking a walk or grabbing a cup of coffee and just pondering some of those bigger things.

3. Meditation and naps to clear the mind.


It is supremely important that we recognize the power of our insecurities and, at the very least, acknowledge where our anxiety comes from. Awareness is always the first step in solving any problem.



ToM deficits have been observed in people with autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenics, persons under the influence of alcohol and narcotics, sleep-deprived persons, and persons who are experiencing severe emotional or physical pain.

Research by Vittorio Gallese, Luciano Fadiga and Giacomo Rizzolatti (reviewed in [51]) has shown that some sensorimotor neurons, which are referred to as mirror neurons, first discovered in the premotor cortex of rhesus monkeys, may be involved in action understanding.

Neuropsychological evidence has provided support for neuroimaging results on the neural basis of theory of mind. A study with patients suffering from a lesion of the temporoparietal junction of the brain (between the temporal lobe and parietal lobe) reported that they have difficulty with some theory of mind tasks.[49] This shows that theory of mind abilities are associated with specific parts of the human brain.

However, there is also evidence against the link between mirror neurons and theory of mind. First, macaque monkeys have mirror neurons but do not seem to have a 'human-like' capacity to understand theory of mind and belief. Second, fMRI studies of theory of mind typically report activation in the mPFC, temporal poles and TPJ or STS,[54] but these brain areas are not part of the mirror neuron system.

The presumption that others have a mind is termed a theory of mind because each human can only intuit the existence of his/her own mind through introspection, and no one has direct access to the mind of another.

His attention to the concept of serendipity is the best evidence

Some scientists seem to have been aware of the fact that the elegance and parsimony prescribed for the presentation of the results of scientific work tend to falsify retrospectively the actual process by which the results were obtained” (Merton and Barber 2004: 159)

Indeed if you are clever enough to take advantage of the opportunity, you may capture a fox thanks to accidental circumstances while searching for hares.

Colombus’ discovery of America, Fleming’s discovery of penicillin, Nobel’s discovery of dynamite, and other similar cases, prove that serendipity has always been present in research. Merton (1973: 164)

“Intuition, scriptures, chance experiences, dreams, or whatever may be the psychological source of an idea.

This descriptive model has many important implications for the politics of science, considering that the administration and organization of scientific research have to deal with the balance between investments and performance. To recognize that a good number of scientific discoveries are made by accident and sagacity may be satisfactory for the historian of science, but it raises further problems for research administrators.

If this is true, it is necessary to create the environment, the social conditions for serendipity. These aspects are explored in Chapter 10 of The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity.

The solution appears to be a Golden Mean between total anarchy and authoritarianism. Too much planning in science is harmful.

Whitney supervised the evolution of the inquiry everyday but limited himself to asking: “Are you having fun today?” It was a clever way to make his presence felt, without exaggerating with pressure. The moral of the story is that you cannot plan discoveries, but you can plan work that will probably lead to discoveries:

If scientists are determined by social factors (language, conceptual frames, interests, etc.) to find certain and not other “answers,” why are they often surprised by their own observations? A rational and parsimonious explanation of this phenomenon is that the facts that we observe are not necessarily contained in the theories we already know. Our faculty of observation is partly independent from our conceptual apparatus. In this independence lies the secret of serendipity.

The graphs in Fig. 2 trace the influence of online access, estimated from the entire sample of articles, and illustrated for journals and subfields with the mean number of citations. Figure 2A shows the simultaneous effect of commercial and free online availability on the average age of citations

The first question was whether depth of citation—years between articles and the work they reference—is predicted by the depth of journal issues online—how many years back issues were electronically available during the previous year when scientists presumably drafted them into their papers.

Collectively, the models presented illustrate that as journal archives came online, either through commercial vendors or freely, citation patterns shifted. As deeper backfiles became available, more recent articles were referenced; as more articles became available, fewer were cited and citations became more concentrated within fewer articles. These changes likely mean that the shift from browsing in print to searching online facilitates avoidance of older and less relevant literature. Moreover, hyperlinking through an online archive puts experts in touch with consensus about what is the most important prior work—what work is broadly discussed and referenced. With both strategies, experts online bypass many of the marginally related articles that print researchers skim. If online researchers can more easily find prevailing opinion, they are more likely to follow it, leading to more citations referencing fewer articles. Research on the extreme inequality of Internet hyperlinks (14), scientific citations (15, 16), and other forms of “preferential attachment” (17, 18) suggests that near-random differences in quality amplify when agents become aware of each other’s choices. Agents view others’ choices as relevant information—a signal of quality—and factor them into their own reading and citation selections. By enabling scientists to quickly reach and converge with prevailing opinion, electronic journals hasten scientific consensus. But haste may cost more than the subscription to an online archive: Findings and ideas that do not become consensus quickly will be forgotten quickly .

This research ironically intimates that one of the chief values of print library research is poor indexing. Poor indexing—indexing by titles and authors, primarily within core journals— likely had unintended consequences that assisted the integration of science and scholarship. By drawing researchers through unrelated articles, print browsing and perusal may have facilitated broader comparisons and led researchers into the past. Modern graduate education parallels this shift in publication—shorter in years, more specialized in scope, culminating less frequently in a true dissertation than an album of articles (19)

As 21st-century scientists and scholars use online searching and hyperlinking to frame and publish their arguments more efficiently, they weave them into a more focused—and more narrow—past and present.