It’s usually far from “all.” It’s more like, in this room with ten people who I know reasonably well, any given development will tend to provoke specific, identifiable reactions from my mental model of 1-4 of them. If ten minutes go by, my attention will land on almost everyone at some point, and I’ll have clear intuitions for almost everyone at some point, but in any given moment some will be much more salient than others.
Yeah, at this point we’re drifting away from the concept of “a curated mental model” and into just “general mental impressions,” or something. But they’re contiguous concepts, in my head—they’re just different in something like vividness or intensity or clarity. I can “turn my focus” toward what’s just a whispering impression, and it becomes more of what I’m thinking of as a fully-fledged emulation, or I can shove an emulation into the back of my mind and ignore it and it subsides into just being a tickle of awareness.
I can shove an emulation into the back of my mind and ignore it and it subsides into just being a tickle of awareness.
Yes. That rhymes well. I can better describe what goes on with these emulations now.
My primary mental mode is thinking in concepts. Probably related to what Kaj called conceptese. I struggled to find concepts for people; some intermediate structure was missing. With your shoulder advisors, I have found it. And I can apply all the machinery that I have for concepts.
With meditation practice, I got better at noticing thoughts forming or concepts activating. Following your instructions, memories of friends are brought up, and let babble—mostly their expressions. Some do feel easier—have higher emulability. There is quick back and forth between your suggestions and own experimentation. A list is updated with results. First spontaneous activations happen—just fleeting sentences. Like an idea coming up.
My prediction is that this will go the same way many concepts and skills do with me: After a short time of being very concrete, they will stop standing on their own but become part of my overall way of being. Thus less like a person advising but more like just knowing what is going on (your “general mental impressions”). At least if it goes efficiently, otherwise it will remain as a tool used consciously but rarely.
It’s usually far from “all.” It’s more like, in this room with ten people who I know reasonably well, any given development will tend to provoke specific, identifiable reactions from my mental model of 1-4 of them. If ten minutes go by, my attention will land on almost everyone at some point, and I’ll have clear intuitions for almost everyone at some point, but in any given moment some will be much more salient than others.
That sounds like what experienced managers I know seem to be capable of, though they wouldn’t phrase it in terms of advisors.
Yeah, at this point we’re drifting away from the concept of “a curated mental model” and into just “general mental impressions,” or something. But they’re contiguous concepts, in my head—they’re just different in something like vividness or intensity or clarity. I can “turn my focus” toward what’s just a whispering impression, and it becomes more of what I’m thinking of as a fully-fledged emulation, or I can shove an emulation into the back of my mind and ignore it and it subsides into just being a tickle of awareness.
Yes. That rhymes well. I can better describe what goes on with these emulations now.
My primary mental mode is thinking in concepts. Probably related to what Kaj called conceptese. I struggled to find concepts for people; some intermediate structure was missing. With your shoulder advisors, I have found it. And I can apply all the machinery that I have for concepts.
With meditation practice, I got better at noticing thoughts forming or concepts activating. Following your instructions, memories of friends are brought up, and let babble—mostly their expressions. Some do feel easier—have higher emulability. There is quick back and forth between your suggestions and own experimentation. A list is updated with results. First spontaneous activations happen—just fleeting sentences. Like an idea coming up.
My prediction is that this will go the same way many concepts and skills do with me: After a short time of being very concrete, they will stop standing on their own but become part of my overall way of being. Thus less like a person advising but more like just knowing what is going on (your “general mental impressions”). At least if it goes efficiently, otherwise it will remain as a tool used consciously but rarely.