I want to create a notebook that looks like and acts like your actual brain. This notebook (digital) will reflect objectively how you receive your information and how you processed and stored your information.
For example, you read a piece of news about the protest. You take in the information from the news and process this information. Some part of the news reinforced your opinion about a certain group of people, which might prompt you to make a biased opinion in the future, other parts of information were assimilated and combined with some of your old knowledge allows you to formulate a theory about this particular issue.
All of these cognitive processes were happening while you are reading the news. You might not even be aware that this is happening. However, given that the result of this cognitive process might have important implications for your future thinking — impression on a certain group of people, decisions such as who to vote, faith about the country. Without knowledge of this process might result in people forming biases, prejudice, and fear without awareness and unable to evaluate if they are right. This process is too important to just let it go unnoticed.
Therefore, it could be important to create a notebook that helps you see how you process your information.
How your brain process information is similar to how computer process information. It takes input (an experience), let the input go thought several stages of algorithms (information processor), then it yields an output (a behavior, opinion, idea)
This notebook will answer questions such as: Did you put some of your information into your existed schema? Did you assimilate or accommodate the information? How did you store your data, by which categorization did you tag your data? How do you encode this piece of data into your long-term memory? This notebook will also tell you in what way this piece of information would be retrieved in the future.
This notebook will also tell you where did you put this piece of experience into your semantic space. Which experiences are close to it, which are far away from it.
In this way, you can be very confident in knowing your current semantic space and your current schema architecture. By knowing your brain’s storing devices and the property of information processor, you (with the help of technology like machine learning)are able to interpret your behavior, your mood, or your biases. It will also help you to predict your behavior or how you would interpret a new piece of information that got passed into your brain (your tendency to interpret this type of information vs that type of information).
This ability to clearly know your thinking modules helps you to see yourself objectively and make you act wisely with more considerations. It also makes your thoughts sharable and objectively communicable. Therefore, you can get more feedback and advice on your information processor and thus refine them. But there is also fear that we would make everyone’s processor the same, which can have complicated implications.
I guess the connecting line part in my Cognitive Map is to trying to see how your past experiences influenced your new ones, how your current thoughts were influenced by your past thoughts. This data can tell you something about how your neurocircuits and information processor work
This notebook can only work if it were able to synchronize with your brain in some way. Probably some companies are already doing it? (Elon Musk company and Facebook maybe)
But we really need to make it have full privacy and make it serve the people
