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Tuesday 29 May 2012

The World We Know vs The World That Is



Thanks to Vera for twigging me to this brilliant West Wing Video that covers some of the things I love best;

cognition

behaviour

social organization

how linear thinking impacts social equity

maps

This is today's version of heliocentrism.  The world we feel we know, isn't.  This is a concept that goes far further down than you might think.

The world we perecive, thanks to information we take for granted as accurate:





The world as perhaps it is better reflected two-dimensionally:


Of course, the world isn't two-dimensional.  Nothing in our world is, except for the way we perceive it.

Being conscious of this, we can change the world by understanding it better.

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