Content, Structure & the Self

In a Nutshell

There’s always a gap between living an experience and then translating such experiences into concepts upon which we structure our world. The more far-removed our representations are from experience itself, the more distorted and flawed the world we build on top of those representations.

This book studies how our cognition processes our experience. How does our cognition translate experiences into concepts, how do we store that knowledge in the media we produce and how do the resulting conceptual frameworks in turn hinder our ability to effectively navigate our own experience? In what ways are we unknowingly handicapped by the knowledge we gain from the media and narratives we consume? In what ways are such narratives structurally incapable of producing knowledge forms that are actionable? Furthermore, how can we develop a new three-dimensional vocabulary to visualise and study the structure of our experiences?

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About the Book

Our increasing reliance on content-based knowledge forms is continuously reducing our mental stamina to correctly process and navigate our experience. How do we move beyond simply owning the vast knowledge we have access to and instead deeply internalise and render it practically usable? How do we rebuild our lost stamina for navigating our own experience in a competent, efficient way? The book covers three major themes, addressing three kinds of aptitude that regulate this stamina: 1) Content and how to read it, 2) Structure and how to visualise it, and 3) the Self and how to assess it. A limited understanding of content relentlessly diminishes our ability to perceive the structure of our own experiences, which in turn skews our core understanding of the self, consequently setting up expectations of the self that it was never designed to meet. This book aims to resolve and repair the increasingly dysfunctional relationship between our cognition and experience, creating a new framework of understanding that allows a healthier, productive back-and-forth between content, structure & the self.

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