Saturday, April 02, 2005
COGNITIVE MAPPING THRU THE TRANSACTIONAL ENVIRONMENT
A cognitive map is a sketch designed to show the relative location, orientation, and attributes of phenomena in mental, spatial, and transactional environments.
A transactional environment is an action/task/project landscape that has boundaries, horizon lines, co-oridinates, elements, pieces, and players.
A transactional environment is subject to forces outside the environment. These could be gliders ("changes" that glide, fly, ripple, or resonate through the action landscape at a predictable rate over time, but which arbitrarily affect the behavior of boundaries, horizon lines, co-ordinates, elements, pieces, and players making complete predictability within the environment impossible and not subject to a once and for all defining algorithm [read why AI control over real world transactions is a myth in the practical sense]). They could be black swans (paradigm-altering interlopers that appear out of nowhere.) They could merely be connections, or links, or informational conduits to other environments.
Software mind maps are binary tree structures, not free hand sketch maps and therefore,unlike mental maps (symbolic/diagrammatic thinking) or cognitive free-hand sketch maps, are limited in their scope and method. Mind maps improve binary listing in an unfolding logical structure, but are also limited by that structure.
What is required for a true, functional, cognitive sketch map is an open mind and a piece of paper. Read Bilinghurst and Weghorst. Read Feynman Diagrams.
A cognitive map is a mental model of a problem or intended action or set of actions (project) which is designed to define the key elements and to set the path or possible paths through the landscape.
The next step after making a mental map or a sketch map is to convert the key elements of the model landscape and the perceived practical paths into a set of directives for action, a set of notes for reference, and set of links and connections to anything that is outside the model, but is relevant.
This is where The MasterList comes in. The MasterList is the linear list production of potential to-dos lifted from a perceived or sketched action landscape in sequential order, with notes, and links to anything and everything at a single screen interface per project, including links to your document creation and communication tools, with the ability to cut across all projects and to define inter-relationships to "keep an eye" on the boundaries and to assess relative priorities.
For more information about cognitive mapping and The MasterList email us at The MasterList.
A cognitive map is a sketch designed to show the relative location, orientation, and attributes of phenomena in mental, spatial, and transactional environments.
A transactional environment is an action/task/project landscape that has boundaries, horizon lines, co-oridinates, elements, pieces, and players.
A transactional environment is subject to forces outside the environment. These could be gliders ("changes" that glide, fly, ripple, or resonate through the action landscape at a predictable rate over time, but which arbitrarily affect the behavior of boundaries, horizon lines, co-ordinates, elements, pieces, and players making complete predictability within the environment impossible and not subject to a once and for all defining algorithm [read why AI control over real world transactions is a myth in the practical sense]). They could be black swans (paradigm-altering interlopers that appear out of nowhere.) They could merely be connections, or links, or informational conduits to other environments.
Software mind maps are binary tree structures, not free hand sketch maps and therefore,unlike mental maps (symbolic/diagrammatic thinking) or cognitive free-hand sketch maps, are limited in their scope and method. Mind maps improve binary listing in an unfolding logical structure, but are also limited by that structure.
What is required for a true, functional, cognitive sketch map is an open mind and a piece of paper. Read Bilinghurst and Weghorst. Read Feynman Diagrams.
A cognitive map is a mental model of a problem or intended action or set of actions (project) which is designed to define the key elements and to set the path or possible paths through the landscape.
The next step after making a mental map or a sketch map is to convert the key elements of the model landscape and the perceived practical paths into a set of directives for action, a set of notes for reference, and set of links and connections to anything that is outside the model, but is relevant.
This is where The MasterList comes in. The MasterList is the linear list production of potential to-dos lifted from a perceived or sketched action landscape in sequential order, with notes, and links to anything and everything at a single screen interface per project, including links to your document creation and communication tools, with the ability to cut across all projects and to define inter-relationships to "keep an eye" on the boundaries and to assess relative priorities.
For more information about cognitive mapping and The MasterList email us at The MasterList.
