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Our minds don't exist independently from each other to begin with, we are not as separated as we are connected. We are all part of a system, just as our brain h
by Comevius 6y ago
Our minds don't exist independently from each other to begin with, we are not as separated as we are connected. We are all part of a system, just as our brain has parts.
We don't see it this way for some evolutionary reason, but distrupt the communication between the two brain hemispheres and you start to see how much of our concept of indivisible, independent self is made up after the fact by parts that create coherent pictures of the work of other parts, which takes time and by parts that reflect on this, which takes even more time. By the time this coherent self emerges most of the work is done, and a large amount of it is not initiated by it, rather observed. We are of course capable to set things in motion with this slow coherent self, but effective behavior comes from learning to push all the work to the faster parts, which are either already specialized (cognitive biases, heuristics) can be specialized (learning, habits) or even external like tools and people.
Organizations can be seen as an extension of this, like a frontal frontal lobe. Organizations are basically slow thinkers, with procedures to control cognitive biases.
Societies are even more complex and slow, but they too mirror this hierachical organization.