Exploring the "Interesting" Net Chat 2022-08-10

from Diary 2022-08-10 Exploring the “Interesting” Net Chat 2022-08-10

• n: “interesting” exploration net (net-making phase) quite interesting
• t: How interesting is “quite interesting” interesting?
• n: The goal is for the branches to be connected to form a net, so that topics that have been treated separately can be connected.
  • The interest I feel now in unexplored juniors is connected to my interest in avoiding metacognitive ataxia.
• t: I mean, is it interesting to discover the connections?
• n:Unexpected connections were discovered, and those “connections” are interesting.
  • That discovery explains why I’m so enthusiastic about Unexplored Jr.
  • A place to have fun with young people” is important.
• T: Because?
• n: “with young people” is important
  • If it’s just a “fun place to hang out,” you can keep doing it with people you like.
    • But that would raise the average age by one year each year.
  • With young people,” and achieving this condition requires a different kind of effort.
    • Because young people don’t want to be around “smelly person”.
    • I need to work on my metacognition of whether or not I stink.
  • The advantage of creating a place like this: playing with young people gives a fresh stimulus to the brain on my side.
• t: Does it make it easier to discover unexpected connections?
• n: that’s another story
  • It’s interesting to find unexpected connections using the ExploreNet.”
  • It’s interesting to play with young people because it’s fresh and stimulating.”
• T: That these two are interesting in their own right.
• n: may lead to further
• t: seems to be a connection / there seems to be a connection between unexpected connections and fresh stimuli
• N: First of all, there is a desire to understand the structure of the system.
  • The exploratory net encourages it by connecting overhead.
  • The absence of fresh stimuli hinders
• t: How does it interfere?
• n: Fresh stimulus can be a trigger to wonder why when it conflicts with the understanding you have at the moment.
  • An environment where fresh stimuli are not forthcoming, or a mindset that dislikes and shies away from them, causes the opportunity to understand the system to be lost.
  • Understanding the world as a system” needs constant updating as the world is constantly changing.
  • but when you have metacognitive ataxia, you don’t know that.
    • The idea is, “I already have a correct understanding of what is going on, and I don’t appreciate young people behaving in a way that is not in line with that understanding.
• T: What is the difference between “something that is at odds with the understanding I have now” and “fresh stimulus”?
• N: Fresh doesn’t always mean discrepancies.
  • There’s a case of, “Oh, I never thought of that.”
  • For example, the creators of Unexplored Junior are creating a “network of only 50 people connected” that is authenticated through a non-centralized mechanism, and I think, “Wow, that’s interesting.
  • This is not so much a discrepancy as it is just something I didn’t think to do.
    • It’s simply “interesting to be presented with something I never thought of.”
  • Boundaries may not be clear.
  • For example, an 18-year-old creator can set up a legal entity rather casually.
    • I have no qualms about that, and I’m inclined to think it’s funny.
    • In terms of “understanding the world,” I had the assumption that an 18-year-old would never form a corporation.
    • So the facts of observation and understanding contradict each other.
    • That contradiction was resolved by discarding the side of my own assumptions in favor of the observed fact that I’m “standing in reality”.
  • So, in that light, “fresh stimulus” is “at odds with understanding.”
    • ‘Something you didn’t even think existed exists’ is a ‘discrepancy with your understanding.’
    • Fresh = discrepancies.”
    • The conflict hasn’t surfaced because I’ve accepted it without psychological resistance.
    • There can be people who say that this “fresh information” is “outrageous.
• T: It’s going to develop further from “fresh = discrepancies”!
  • When you choose the word “fresh,” you seem to subconsciously assume “rotten.

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