Brain and Behavior Insitute, 2003
Session 14
The I-function, Rationality, Learning - Where We've Come from, Where We Can Go

Review:

"intrinsic variability", exploration/creativity, dreaming, I-function, generalized control mechanisms, mood/emotion

• mood/emotion a good thing
• one of ways unconscious/I-function communicate (along with dreaming, day-dreaming

self? - blend of unconscious and I-function - sleep walking

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The Brain as a Scientist, Explorer, Story-Teller

Putting it all together

• Personal choice, free will
• Unconscious learning
• Thinking and learning: the interaction of the unconscious and the I-function
• Another example
• And another

• I-function tells/retells story of self, as unconscious tells/retells story of world?
• Co-constructing reality and the self

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So, what DOES all this have to do with education .... and life ?
(see Loopiness as a Pedagogical Objective and A Vision of Science Education) in the 21st Century: Everybody "Getting It Less Wrong" Together)

The bottom line (in progress)

teacher	student
you are a unique and valuable individual	they are unique and valuable individuals
you know more than you think you do	they know more than they (and you) think they do
you are equipped to learn, to get it less wrong, and want to	they are equipped to learn, to get it less wrong, and want to
education is exploration	education is exploration
you need a classroom rich enough to explore	they need a classroom rich enough to explore
we're all in this together	we're all in this together
together we can get it "less wrong"	together we can get it "less wrong"
and have fun	and have fun

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Trust your past (including your genome/culture/experiences), but not too much
Trust your unconscious, but not too much
Trust your thinking, but not too much
Trust making choices, observing, learning, but not too much
Trust other people's stories as well as your own, but not too much
Keep looping ...

And repeat, over and over and over again:

"getting it less wrong" - its what your brain, and everyone else's, is "designed" to do Thanks for telling your stories. listening to mine, learning from each other. Let's keep it up.

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Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. ...... Jelaluddin Rumi, 13th century Sufi poet

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