Freshly grown on the garden this week - “How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg"
A lightning talk I gave at the end of last year on what it means to build a “second brain,” put into the historical and cultural perspective of cartesian dualism and cyborgs
maggieappleton.com/neocyborgs
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Fascinating, so many interesting ideas, especially embodied knowledge and codified knowledge. I'm continually testing different ways of organising ideas to connect and build on. So what's the answer? Is building a second brain a good and valuable thing to do?
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Sure, if we replace the words “second brain” with “partial cybernetic extension of your empirical collection and reflection system to help the small conscious part of your brain do a limited number of writing-based tasks”
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And design our systems around embodied experiences.
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Yes of course, should have realised. Metaphorical to literal
Designing around embodied experiences is interesting. Like your boxes for nouns, arrows for verbs, one is no good without the other, an idea is no good without its relationship to other ideas which requires physicality
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Yeah exactly. I like the idea of focusing on habits, emotional states, routines and designed environments, rather than note apps and features.
Love the community around this stuff but sometimes it all gets a bit focused on the wrong parts of the puzzle. Embodiment FTW 🙆♀️
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