Game in the Brain

 Part of my Designers Notes

The Key concepts discussed are intended to allow the Referee or the Player:

• See patterns and systems better. Able to identify them and work with them. 
• See Processes are Systems of Activities and Events. 
• See Skills and Knowledge as their own Processes, and thus see them as Systems. 
• Be able to have a mental framework to deal with all many elements that make up a System using Chunking, Mnemonics, different types of learning, affinity or familiar or similar systems.  
• See how these Systems Overlap, are Similar, and Different. 
• To be able to Test, Apply, improve, modify, audit, a System.  
• To see the Fractal Patterns that are found in all systems. 

I see a person, and how humans behave towards people. But humans have this strange behavior of applying how they Judge a human the way they judge an Idea, an Object, an event, etc… When something Gets really complicated with many attributes or elements – the brain switches to what Daniel Kahneman calls System 1 – the thing is we can barely control when our brains do system 1 – our brain does a shorthand analysis to conserve attention, to maintain situational awareness, and other pretty Valid reasons – But then again like any POWERFUL computer – it gets more powerful when we decide how its resources are allocated. If the resources of the computer are applied on where we want it applied. 

Do we get angry at something we can’t do anything about, or act in a way that elevates our condition. 

It’s hard to Separate these constellations of Ideas – that my brain hoards because It doesn’t have the wealth of attention and memory other brains may have and take for granted. Ask me what happened two minutes ago and 50-80% of the time I may just say I don’t remember (I’m almost a goldfish; looking up at the previous text – so that’s where the two minutes went). 

Dumb people like me cheat by memorizing the answers to the test, copied off smarter people. 

Of course, smart people don’t need these techniques – but these techniques being Explicit allow for someone as mundane and meager be a Cheap knock-off a smarter person. 

Budget Smart Person -“abot Kaya” – accessible to everyone – great for use at work and at home. Don’t need to be rich to have all the brains.