The Human Operating System

The Human Operating System

(This article follows Culture As Interface in the FS Main Thread.) If we are going to use the culture-as-interface framework, … … we will need an operational sense of what we mean by “innate human nature.” Trying to understand “innate human nature” in relation to culture has been challenging in the past, but I’m hopeful […]

The Dynamic Life of Long-Term Memory

The Dynamic Life of Long-Term Memory

This is the second in a series of articles about how our minds work, aimed at better understanding how to facilitate faster and more graceful cultural change. Please see Taking Einstein Seriously for an overall introduction. Long-term memory is what we often think of simply as “memory” and it is the repository of everything we […]

Working Memory

Working Memory

This is the first in a series of articles about how our minds work, aimed at better understanding how to facilitate faster and more graceful cultural change. Please see Taking Einstein Seriously for an overall introduction. The conscious part of our minds, the place where our attention is focused, is at the heart of all […]