Neurocognitive Inefficacy Across the Curriculum

Dear Colleagues,

Ways We Talk (& Write)
Across The Curriculum
(courses without border series)

Neurocognitive Inefficacy of the Strategy Process (2007)
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1118 (1) , 163–185

Pre-Ludic: I totally agree with what this Annal
of the NY Academy of Sciences is saying. I hate the
way it’s said. This is what we have a required
composition program for: to immunize children
against such obfuscation and fol-de-rol, yes?
Need we argue? As Mark Twain or maybe
Wm Dean Howells said to Henry James:
"just pit it out in papa's hand."

Ludic

Thus,
strategic analysis
protocols that may
appear to be and indeed
are entirely rational and logical
are not interpretable as such at
the neuronal substrate level
where thinking takes
place.

[Consider by analogy, then: the possibility that the
entirely rational and logical protocols of our class-
room-syllabus-cover-the-ground & assess-mental-
prototypical-COURSE environmental studies &
academic policies may not be so interpretable as
such at the neuronal substrate level where thinking
takes place esp these days of neo-oral, post literate
surround-sound media technology IN which our
children have been swimming since their conception
and so: the plethora of learning disabilities & wonderfully
massive attention efficiency/deficiency dissonance of our
globule village]

The analytical structure (or propositional representation)
of these tools results in a mental dead end, the
phenomenon known in cognitive psychology
as functional fixedness.

[ uh yes…
what I’m saying.
Of course],

The difficulty lies with the inability of the brain to
make out meaningful (i.e., strategy-provoking)
stimuli from the mental images (or depictive
representations) generated by strategic analysis
tools.

yes Yes YES How many ways can we say it: the ways we
rationalize irrational processes is catching up with us,
help! losing its charm of faux determinacy—hard-balls
& mallet reduction of what we all know to be upside down
flamingo&hedgehog croquet. How many of you operate by
stimuli from the depictive representations generated by
strategic analysis tools? No seriously: I ‘m asking. Do you
LIKE the SOUND of that, when they talk dirty like that?
What’s the pay-off in talking that way? There must be
some pay off.]

We propose decreasing dependence on these tools and
conducting further research employing brain imaging
technology to explore complex data handling protocols
with richer mental representation and greater potential
for strategy creation .

[[Or we could just encourage & let our selves get somewhat
carried away in a sustaining and sustainable local ongoing
conversation about these things down & dirty growing
some local food of our own —what it takes to think
better and good about , well, you can call it
“strategy creation” if you like to talk that
way: the more ways of talking the better
and maybe merrier. Strategy Creation:
got to love it.]]

Post Ludic

It just occurs to me: Bob is foisting, is perpetrating
a hoax! Got me GOOD! Damnit. But I’m not sure—
whether I’ve been had, or not. Well, it'll come out.
Any one can improve my terms & images,
biases and belief systems--or what's a
college for? xxxooo, Sam