For a proud species of sense-makers (humans, generally), it is ironic, often unnoticed and consequently tragic, that the thing we appear to make least sense of, is sense-making itself.

We (humans, collectively), lack an objective, fundamentally coherent account of the mind (and cognition) 1.

For much of the time, most of us, don’t notice. It simply doesn’t seem to matter.

Until it does:

  1. We routinely misunderstand ourselves, and others; and others routinely misunderstand us, and themselves
  2. In matters of conflict – we tend to consider individuals to be at fault, rather than other more fundamental, or external, causes
  3. In matters of the mind (and cognition) – we tend to turn our back on those whose personal circumstances or perspectives, differ too broadly

  1. An objective, fundamentally coherent account of the mind (and cognition) is one which aligns fundamental biological constituents of the brain, nervous system and body, with all down-stream circumstances, of phenomenological experience, behaviours, and out. ↩︎