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The Human Mind as a Self-Organizing Phenomenon
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The human mind is a self-organizing entity that relies heavily on the environment and other people to navigate through the combinatorial explosion of available information.

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Our thinking and problem-solving processes depend greatly on the resources and tools around us, including other people, and how they come together to form a dynamic system of distributed cognition.
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Cognition
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Our thinking and problem-solving processes depend greatly on the resources and tools around us, including other people, and how they come together to form a dynamic system of distributed cognition.

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The Human Mind as a Self-Organizing Phenomenon
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#657: Professor John Vervaeke — How to Build a Life of Wisdom, Flow, and Contemplation
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The Tim Ferriss Show
Our embodiment dictates our ability to care about and prioritize certain information over others.
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Information Processing
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Our embodiment dictates our ability to care about and prioritize certain information over others. Being self-organizing and self-caring means understanding which information is important to us and in what context.

Chapter
The Human Mind as a Self-Organizing Phenomenon
Episode
#657: Professor John Vervaeke — How to Build a Life of Wisdom, Flow, and Contemplation
Podcast
The Tim Ferriss Show