On Dec 19, 2:09 am, Georges Metanomski <zg...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Searching wisdom in Wikipedias may only lead to confusion. > > Please, have a look at "TIME, AWARENESS AND EVENTS" > inhttp://findgeorges.com/CORE/A_FOUNDATIONS/a1_time_awareness_and_event... > "When I perceive a tree I'm not aware of being aware of perceiving a tree, but I'm aware of "tree", so that the only way of expressing Awareness would be "Tree"."
Hmm, apparently due to early training, my mind functions differently from yours. In the third grade AT (Academically Talented**) program, I was taught to think in multitrack mode, with recursion. Not only do I see a tree, I am aware of the process of observing the tree, of the process overlaying that of categorizing the tree as important/relevant to my situation, if so then why it is relevant, if sufficiently high priority what are the courses of action which I might take regarding the tree, all processed in parallel and integrated into a gestalt awareness of myself and my current situation. This is not to imply that I must focus entirely upon the tree, but upon the tree in context to the total environment. As an example, In Heinlein's "Tunnel In the Sky", the main character goes into the training situation armed only with a knife because he had deduced from conversation that the knowledge of his vulnerability would increase his situational awareness. Once he discovers that there are large carnivores in the territory, he makes it a point to stay near to climbable trees. This pays off when he is surprised by a large lionlike carnivore. He had (while paying attention to the total environment), kept IN MIND the probability that he would need to go up a tree very quickly, and of course with the author on his side, he succeeded. He was practicing multitrack thinking. Combat troops can attest to the value of situational awareness, and as I understand what little I see on television regarding modern combat tactics, leadership training emphasizes the importance of that topic. In combat situational awareness is enhanced by multiple information sources designed to present a hierarchy of information giving the necessary levels of detail without overloading the soldier's attention mechanisms. A prime example is the training of jet fighter pilots... ** The AT program collected all of the genius grade children from Shelby County TN into one hotbed of fermenting minds from 1964 to 1968. It was one of Johnson's "great society" programs cancelled by Nixon. Teacher student ratio was 15-20 students per teacher. Every imaginable trick of the time was tried out to educate students to college level 3-4 years sooner than normal schools. A typical experiment was the packet system of learning, self paced, self directed, only scoring being performed by teachers. Another was the teaching of graduate level English language theory to grade schoolers, including sentence parsing for structural diagrams, reading at high school then college level, rules of logical reasoning, rhetoric, and composition. Lonnie Courtney Clay -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to epistemol...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
