Oddbean new post about login | logout We use a map and compass to guide us, particularly when the terrain is confusing. No matter what philosophical or political flavor you subscribe to, our current willingness to abandon maps in favor of streams of data, no matter how sophisticated the external analysis tools are, leaves us open to manipulation. In our complacency, we rely on cloud or mere cultural cognition, or both. Cultural cognition is limited to roughly two teams and a few tools in real-time. https://web.archive.org/web/20070418142809/http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/ppig/readinglist/tomasello_et_al2004.pdf
All of us have this same limitation as far as human cognition within cultural cognition. This is a difficult lesson. Most are bopping along at the top of cognition, stretched for attention, pulled forward in streams. Oh yeah... two teams, what of three tools do I use right now?... never setting aside time to map knowledge from a local needs perspective. But, mainly, I need to remember this for myself, mirror-like wisdom that I am as limited as everybody, and should avoid blue vs. red, etc.