This final installment of the Movement Series looks back over the previous 8 articles and assesses where we’ve been, and what we’ve found.

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When enough accumulated re-writes occur, the structure below the awareness is rebuilt. This episode examines that process.

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The Black Box of the mind, sitting below the threshold of consciousness is not just sitting, waiting. It is active, it is predicting, moment to moment.

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Prediction paralysis stalls movement. Too many possible futures means the mind can commit to any given direction.

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Episode Three of “The Mind, Mapped” looks below the waterline at the formation of identity. How the process works of building the “structure” we call identity.

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This episode begins to break out the Nine Modes, starting with “Pragmatic Mode,” the Mode of action.

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When the system of overloaded, load increases. Too many options and the mind stalls. The ability to predict becomes strained, and overwhelm increases.

This episode looks at that phenomenon.

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In episode one we established the waterline between the conscious and subconscious. In this episode, we take a look below the waterline.

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Recurring forms of organization have names. Weather patterns have names, chess moves have names, musical genres have names.

Conversations have recurring forms of organization. It’s time they had names, too.

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Why does movement slow down when we have many important things to do? They all matter, they’re all important, any yet, the system slows, and sometimes, even stops.

Part 6 of the Movement series looks at this question.

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