We Name the Players. We Rarely Name the Game.

Nine Modes Introduction Pt 2

By the Mercer Journal

When conversations break down, the obvious move is to look at those involved. But if we want to understand conversation better, perhaps we should be looking somewhere else.

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The Weight of Unfinished Things (Movement Series Pt5)

The Mechanics of Cognition

By the Mercer Journal

Why do small things left undone feel heavier than larger more complex projects? Why does the mind continually return to loose ends?

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The Gate

Part Five of The Mind, Unbuilt

By the Mercer Journal

There is a moment where the conscious thinking and the unconscious truth meet, and diverge. This is when the first eye and the second eye meet, and the time when the gate is open. To explore the mind, listen to episode five.

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Conversations have structure. They have forms. They are organized in different ways. This is the introduction to the Nine Modes, the shapes of conversations.

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Why We Wait for Motivation

Part 4 of the Movement Series, From Mechanics of Cognition

Some tasks never begin. There are many reasons why. This episode focuses on the reason of ‘waiting for motivation,’ and why this doesn’t help.

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The Second Eye

Part Four of The Mind, Unbuilt

What is “the second eye”? It is the thing that writes conscious experience into “the receiver,” the black box of consciousness. It has the capacity to observe itself observing experience.

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What Survived the Sorting

Part Three of The Mind, Unbuilt

The Sorting is complete. Only Qualia and Attention remain. Are these two things, or one thing from two different angles, and what this means for consciousness.

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The Missing Variable

Part 8 of Conversations That Should Have Worked

By the Mercer Journal

This 8 part series has looked at the manifold ways that good conversations fail, and what the common variable between them becomes. Listen to part 8 for the run down of the series, and to find out where it goes from here.

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Why Some Tasks Never Start

Part 3 of The Movement Series

By the Mercer Journal

Why is it so hard to start tasks, even when we actually want to do them? Episode 3 of The Movement Series examines this common problem to see if there is a solution.

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The Unbundling, From The Mind, Unbuilt, Pt 2

By The Mercer Journal

In Part 2 of the Mind, Unbuilt, we break down the definition of consciousness which has accumulated for centuries, and look at what actually constitutes “consciousness.”

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