John L. Lewis said something like: It ill behooves one, who has supped at Academia's table, and who has been sheltered in Academia's house, to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both Academia and its adversaries, when they become locked in deadly embrace.
I was going to send this to the list, but I feared you might take too hard. Basically, I love the quote and will use it anytime I get the chance. Those old timey labor leaders sure knew how to sling words around. Nick -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Merle Lefkoff Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:53 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Expertise, etcetera Merle Lefkoff wrote: Forgive me for blithely skipping from the "mind" to the "brain". Our brains decide and predict based on a complex dynamic between the "emotional brain" ( in our limbic system), and what I call the "trained brain". The training results from the neurotransmitter dopamine which is constantly registering our trials and errors. Our brains incorporate an analysis of our past mistakes, and we become more "expert" the more self-aware we are about these mistakes (remember: our brains amplify the experience from the negative feedback loops). And so the "subterranean warehouse" is not just hunch and instinct, it includes a whole lot of rational analysis based on how well--and recently--we've predicted in the past. Even so-called "experts" are hard-wired for "loss aversion". They are likely to form their predictions based on how recently they predicted wrongly and NOT on the statistics they've studied. And so, the older you get and the more you make mistakes and the more you get hit upside-the-head and actually LEARN from your mistakes, the more "expert" you become. Yea! (And you don't need a Ph.D.) Merle Victoria Hughes wrote: > Ran across an interesting article just now on this. Please note I am > just adding this to the discussion, not using it as justification one > way or the other. I do not have a PhD, have often toyed with getting > one (in organizational psych) and have opinions on both sides of the > issue. Real-world fact though is that PhDs give credibility and > accreditation to outside observers, whatever we may think from closer in. > > Here- > > You Know More Than You Know | Wired Science | Wired.com > > FIrst paragraph: > > " There's a fascinating new paper in Psychological Science by the > Dutch psychologist Ap Dijksterhuis on the virtues of unconscious > thought when it comes to predicting the outcome of soccer matches. It > turns out that the conscious brain - that rational voice in your head > deliberating over the alternatives - gets in the way of expertise. > Although we tend to think of experts as being weighted down by > information, their intelligence dependent on a vast set of explicit > knowledge, this experiment suggests that successful experts don't > consciously access these facts. When they evaluate a situation, they > don't systematically compare all the available soccer teams or analyze > the relevant players. They don't rely on elaborate spreadsheets or > athletic statistics or long lists of pros and cons. Instead, > Dijksterhuis' study suggests that the best experts naturally depend on > their unconscious mind, on that subterranean warehouse of feelings, > hunches and instincts...." > > .... > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe > at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at > http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
