What is the Conceptionary?
Why are concepts important ?
(Why you should care)
'Concepts' are integrations of complex sets of information. When objects, processes, and ideas are linked in a concept, that concept allows us to 'chunk' or handle information differently. Concepts give us both a linguistic shorthand for that complex set of information, and a mental 'handle' that is more easily graspable than a paragraph full of words.
Concepts can be thought of as mental tools, or cognitive infrastructure. Mental tools refers to the ability of concepts to manipulate and handle information; 'cognitive infrastructure' refers to how concepts act as foundations for other concepts and mental constructs.
Need to upgrade our concepts – levers for thinking
-of the Global Dialog Project
lower the energy barriers :
What we are talking about is creating -
Making it easier to create than to destroy
-of systems
-from biological systems; biological metaphors
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catalyst
- activation energy
- circuits
- reward system
- network
- hierarchy
- holoarchy
- heterarchy
- recruitment
- niche
- generalist/specialist
- integration/convergence