Archive for the 'cognition'

• Metaphors and Analogies: A Two-Edged Sword

April 15th, 2010 by zen

Posted in academia, America, analogy, analytic, attention, brain, cognition, complexity, creativity, disinformation, Epistemology, framing, history, horizontal thinking, ideas, innovation, insight, intellectuals, IO, meme, metacognition, myth, national security, Perception, politics, priming, propaganda, psychology, social science, society, synthesis, teaching, theory | 13 comments

• The Surge, Rigor, Yardsticks and Mediums

April 7th, 2010 by zen

Posted in academia, America, arab world, bias, blogosphere, CNAS, cognition, COIN, complexity, counterinsurgency, defense, Epistemology, fisking, foreign policy, government, ideas, insurgency, intellectuals, iraq, islamic world, mideast, military, military history, national security, politics, rambling, social science, state building, strategy, Strategy and War, theory, tribes, vertical thinking, war | 12 comments

• The Games People Play II

April 5th, 2010 by zen

Posted in cognition, culture, education, fun, games, ideas, intellectuals, intelligence, psychology, rule-sets, society, teaching, tech, theory, web 2.0, youtube | 7 comments

• Barnett on the Tipping Point of Blogging

March 29th, 2010 by zen

Posted in barnett, blogging, blogosphere, cognition, Collaboration, creativity, feedback, ideas, insight, intellectuals, metacognition, open-source, personal, psychology, reader response, readers, tech, theory, web 2.0 | 8 comments

• Creativity in the IC – Or the Lack of It

March 28th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, analytic, art hutchinson, bias, CIA, cognition, complex systems, complexity, connectivity, consilience, counterintuitive, creativity, Epistemology, framing, futurism, government, horizontal thinking, IC, ideas, insight, intellectuals, intelligence, medici effect, metacognition, military intelligence, national security, Perception, psychology, scenario, social science, society, synthesis, theory | 6 comments