Fragments of Thought: Systems of Thinking

Just sharing a few fragments of thought tonight, after a long day of travel. Thinking about change in different spaces: learning as change, the evolving nature of knowledge , change as continuous, the fragmentation of certainty, changing belief, changing social dynamics. Considering this as a feature of sense making and the creation of meaning .

That we construct our reality and operate within that construction: that knowledge is used to construct meaning and that we invest that meaning with emotional context. So we come to value our certainty, and hold it collectively in dogmatic forms.

In this sense that learning can be a process of deconstruction: of certainty and legacy, and hence of power and identity.

This maybe speaks of a tensions between our individual cognitive processes of learning, and group social features of dominant narratives and ‘pro-social’ forms of knowledge and the articulation of such. So culture, and schema, acting upon us, sometimes inhibiting us.

Or… systems self selecting against change. So considering mechanisms of constraint and the structures that constraint is held within.

#WorkingOutLoud with some fragments of thought on learning and change.