Working Notes: Current Working Notes These notes are the contents of a whiteboard in Tinderbox that I'm using to map out my (more . . .)

Fire Your Boss: All decisions are emotional. That's not a bad thing. However, there is a problem with one-dimensional decision making. We tend (more . . .)

ODB: Imagination as Simulation: This was the first post in my original philosophical weblog, "On Deciding . . . Better":

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My personal website is at ODBlog . I write about decision theory at my site On Deciding . . . Better . This site is a hyperlinked set of essays using Tinderbox.

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Meditation techniques have been developed in many cultures around the world, a kind of convergent cultural evolution. Most techniques focus on emptying the mind to permit a focus beyond the confusion in the world.

The David Allen Company: Having an empty mind . . . is to stay energized, enlivened and calm, so that we can tap the mind for its best thinking. It is as though our mind seems to connect-when it is quiet-to a source of geniality, creativity, poignancy and sharpness.

As valuable as I believe imagination and simulation to be, there is value in developing mental techniques that push out the conscious side of thinking to allow deeper mental structures to develop and exert influence on subsequent behavior.

Copyright 2003 by James J. Vornov