Monday, 26 September 2016

The parliamentary unconscious



There is an intention to stay away from ICT and music for at least part of today. There is also an urge to footer with it. Two members of parliament in my unconscious.

Neither the real nor the metaphorical parliaments lend themselves to easy definition. But the essence is debate related to topical topics.  Representatives of different points of view interact as part of a deliberative assembly. 

In many situations there are not enough fastidious facts upon which to base a definitive decision and blustering bullshit results. And in such environments politicians prioritize policy.

Teresa May and Jeremy Corbyn share our hominid inheritance and have a common set of hard wired instincts. But they will have been encultured differently and will therefore have different sets of intuitions and biases. 

Four hours and four paragraphs. There has been footering.  The mind has been wandering. There has been a continuous buzz of chat from the cerebral lobby but very little of it has been about ICT and music. Yoh!

Note – thanks to David Eagleman for the idea of the mind being like a parliament.

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