Replying to LO30222 --
On Fri, 30 May 2003 11:53:20 +0200, AM de Lange said:
>...Information Fatigue Syndrome. People become mentally
> tired, staring at something for many minutes without doing anything and
> not aware of it.
> In terms of LEP (Law of Entropy Production), this fatigue is nothing else
> than a low level of mental "free energy" F. What happens is that the load
> of information (itself a source of entropy according to Shannon) erodes
> the ruggedness of the mind's entropy landscape (fitness landscape --
> Kauffman) away. It becomes flatter and likewise its complementary free
> energy landscape -- the reason for the fatigue.
At, could we say that there is too high a supply of otherness, without
enough sureness? That is, the diversity of sensory input is very high,
while the ability to identify, categorize and thus digest it is not fast
enough? This eventually leads to a shutdown of openness to otherness to
conserve the already insufficient surenness (thus the feeling of "where am
I? what to do?"), again restricts fruitfulness and future emergences. Do
you feel that is accurate?
If it is a lack of sureness and an oversupply of otherness, then we need
to use the other 5Es to compensate.
The worst way is to shut down openness by temporarily opening the tap of
fruitfulness and accepting any bifurcation to occur.
A good alternative strategy is to increase liveness by asking where am I
going with this? What is important? How do I know it is important? What
are the cues to look for? etc. From this increased liveness one can form
openness criteria (information filter) that, while restricting otherness
(through rejection criteria), does not severly restrict the possibility
for emergences. Speed reading techniques (not the photographic reading
nonsense) are an example of this increase in liveness. Other learning
(process) tools are also helpful, such as graphing (picture is sometimes
more worth than a thousand words,) concept mapping, decision making
templates etc. What we have here is an example of liveness with openness
complementing or increasing sureness (don't we At?)
Another strategy is to simply restrict the amount of sensory input from
the environment. One makes a conscious choice to restrict exposure to
information in terms of sources and time. This choice is also a matter of
increasing liveness to prop up sureness (what do I really need) and
thereby restrict openness. This strategy is actually an increase in
spareness by recognizing ones limits (measuring and managing them ) and
putting a value on the flows of information.
Yet another strategy is to just keep learning in a variety of fields. This
leads to a larger system of knowledge more capable of digestion. A raw
increase in all 7 Es through wholeness.
One could also connect to new and different sensory input. This is an
increase in fruitfulness. For example, through the internet one may take
advantage of weblogs and discussion groups to let others do one's
filtering work!
Terje
--"Terje A. Tonsberg" <tatonsberg@hotmail.com>
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