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Human Knowledge and Collective Unconscious

18 Saturday Jun 2016

Posted by gokulbalex in Critic, Essays, Nature, Networking, Opinions, Perspectives, Philosophy, Psychology, Research, Science

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Knowledge-Management, Life, Mind, Nature, Physics, Psychoogy, Quantum-Physics, Social Media

Social Networks are part of our life big time. We spend hours surfing through the profiles, walls and news feeds of our friends and foes alike. Social networks create micro experiences of vivid emotions, in fact a bewildering variety of emotions and flurry of thought. There is a lot of impulsive expressions in social networks. Fine, what about the formation and distribution of knowledge in social networks?

Information exist in the digital systems, but knowledge is always created through human act of cognition and re-cognition. It can only be represented and absorbed in social networks. Hence the full life-cycle of information exchange and knowledge management should materialize in social networks.

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Not all information becomes knowledge, but some grains of knowledge get created and distributed through social networks. The challenge is that people seldom reflect and analyze the knowledge within the social networks. Information gets assimilated within seconds, perhaps like the attention span of a Gold fish. However, knowledge takes time to gets developed in human mind. It is not just the analytical insights that we are talking about. It is about the collection of hypothesis, inductions, deductions, inferences, critical analysis and reflections that we sum up as a knowledge collective.

The unique nature of knowledge is that it is not something a machine can produce. An act of human cognition and re-cognition is required to create a quantum of knowledge. Knowledge is generated in the human mind, not in the human – machine interfaces. It is a kind of space-time integration of information and impulses in the semantic ocean of collective unconscious.

Perhaps nature of knowledge is the single most beautiful entity that quantum physics should have studied. Unfortunately, quantum physics had always its own plastic affections to uncertainty and could not go beyond the ramifications about quantum consciousness. Knowledge is a dialectic melange of synchronic and diachronic coefficients of collective unconscious that gets superposed with the synaptic impulses from our experiences. Our synaptic impulses are nothing but the cerebral expressions of information exchanges. There is a semiotic continuum at work in human act of cognition and re-cognition that transforms every genetic expressions to powerful symbols that human mind can easily relate. It is all together a beautiful nature at work in the formation of knowledge in human mind.

 

 

Twitter, Dick Costolo and Future : A few thoughts

13 Saturday Jun 2015

Posted by gokulbalex in Internet, Networking

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Business, Social Media, Society

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has stepped down, inline with the market expectations and the rumors round the corner for some time now. This has been directly and visibly attributed mainly to the sluggish growth in the user base for a revolutionary communication, collaboration and content aggregation platform.

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Is Twitter Juggernaut slowing down?

Now that everyone is sharing their causal and critical analysis on the turn of events, let me also have the share of the pie. As an active consumer of Twitter wisdom, I find a few architectural flaws in the current state of Twitter.

  1. Accentuating information clutter: When I look at my twitter feed, lion share of the content is dis-interesting and disengaging. Sometimes it is flooded with the ‘so called marketing aphorisms’ and self promotion tweets. Many at times, I see the repetitive content marketing feeds. The user is left with the hard job of selectively un-following these kind of clutter creators.
  2. Skewed social graph: There is no way the consumer ‘feels at home’ with the platform. There is no community formation happening in Twitterati, unlike Facebook or Instagram. Some of us are followers and some of us are influencers. There is a huge disparity and ‘Network gap’ between them.
  3. Limited possibility for content curation: Even though I have created multiple lists of related twitter profiles, I have to manually go to those lists to see the curated content. There is no automated and organic approach to synthesizing my curated content with the twitter feeds on my profile page.

At the end of the day, I find it better to spend time in platforms like Klout or LinkedIn Pulse for interesting posts and hot trends, than surfing through the information clutter and marketing mess in Twitter. I am sure all these design flaws cannot be attributed to Dick Costolo. Still I believe this is a right opportunity to reflect on a great information broadcasting platform which still has untapped potentials for future.

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