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society of mind, community of selves

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 05/31/2010 - 2:17pm.

"each of us contains multiple selves—all with different desires, and all fighting for control."

Yep, very interesting article, and indeed relevant to thinking about education; nice connection.  Interesting too the parallels to Marvin Minsky's "society of mind," a closely related notion of multiple parts with different interests derived from thinking not about people but rather about artificial intelligence. 

Think it would be fun to try and model some of this.  As an adjunct to thinking more about the benefits of society of mind architectures (mulitple interacting "boxes") and the mechanisms in the brain to deal with them (corollary discharge signals and a "fuschia dot"/I-function/story teller; cf The brain and social well-being and The brain, story sharing, and social organization).  That might help us think more about a "multiple selves" pedagogy.

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