Thursday

The Cousin's Reply

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"I like "cog defrag." It's a psychological term that's also very pertinent today with the computer revolution. I'd bet a thousand to one odds (not really) that Bill Gates' mind is organized like "Windows." Computers are becoming more and more attuned to how people think, and peoples' thoughts are progressively more reliant on the organization ... Read More schemes of computers (do you remember when spell-check blew all our minds?). I think someday soon we'll be comparing computer processors with different regions of the brain. Also, "cog defrag" sounds totally Sci-Fi.

As for those "cognitive distortions," they rear their ugly heads up I think for everyone at some point or another, but the people that can overcome them are usually the most happy (if not the most successful) people. Do you guys agree?

Another idea to go along with the "cognitive defragmentation" idea is found in music: For instance, a melody starts one way and then uses fragments of itself with new strains in a give-and-take effort to make the melody split into multiple variations, creating "hooks" or choices of how to go into the chorus or verse or bridge or just 'round and 'round."

Oh, Sean? Hello, TL Bridges? Dave Wave? Where are you? This stuff is up your respective procedereponder alleys.