MOC-Cognition
Thinking tools for clear reasoning
Consciousness Layers
Exploration of awareness, below and beyond ordinary perception.
- SUBCONSCIOUS — The dark water; patterns before language
See also (🧬 Core):
- SOUL — Our essence and guiding principles
- SUPER-CONSCIOUS — The convergence; pattern of patterns
Kristopher’s Frameworks
Unified models developed through lived experience and articulated in session.
- Juggling Framework — Unified theory of cognition, motion, and systems; everything derived from lever push-pull
- Dream Architecture — How Kristopher built a simulated lucid dream inside a conversation using fragmented text and emoji cycling
- Biointelligence Explosion — Seed paper for Kbird.ai; cross-species cognitive enhancement scenario; parakeet as language-centric mind = K
Cognitive Biases
Systematic patterns of deviation from rationality. 25 biases documented.
Memory & Information
- Anchoring Bias — Over-relying on first information
- Availability Heuristic — Judging by ease of recall
- Confirmation Bias — Seeking confirming evidence
- Hindsight Bias — “I knew it all along”
- Gell-Mann Amnesia — Trusting media outside your expertise
Decision & Judgment
- Sunk Cost Fallacy — Continuing due to past investment
- Loss Aversion — Preferring avoiding losses to gains
- Status Quo Bias — Preferring current state
- Optimism Bias — Overestimating positive outcomes
- Planning Fallacy — Underestimating time/costs
- Illusion of Control — Overestimating agency over chance
- Affect Heuristic — Deciding based on emotion
Social & Attribution
- Ingroup Bias — Favoring one’s own group
- Authority Bias — Trusting authority figures
- Halo Effect — Generalizing from one trait
- Fundamental Attribution Error — Attributing behavior to character
- Naive Realism — Believing you see objective reality
Confidence & Calibration
- Overconfidence Effect — Excessive confidence
- Illusion of Validity — Believing predictions are accurate
- Curse of Knowledge — Forgetting what it’s like not to know
Systems & Long-term
- Survivorship Bias — Studying only successes
- Normal Accidents — Inevitable failures in complex systems
- Value Drift — Preferences changing over time
- Wireheading — Hijacked reward circuitry
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🧠 Cognition/Biases/ — 25 documented biases
Logical Fallacies
Errors in reasoning that undermine arguments.
Relevance Fallacies
- Ad Hominem — Attack the person
- Straw Man — Misrepresent argument
- Red Herring — Irrelevant distraction
- Appeal to Authority — Irrelevant expert
- Appeal to Emotion — Emotional manipulation
Causal Fallacies
- Post Hoc — After this, therefore because
- Slippery Slope — Inevitable chain
- False Cause — Correlation = causation
Evidence Fallacies
- Cherry Picking — Selective evidence
- Hasty Generalization — Small sample
- Anecdotal Evidence — Personal story
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Mental Models
Conceptual frameworks for understanding reality. 12 models documented.
Systems Thinking
- Emergence — Whole greater than parts
- Second-Order Thinking — Consequences of consequences
- Feedback Loops — Circular causality (in Cybernetics)
Decision Making
- Inversion — Solve backwards
- Opportunity Cost — Cost of alternatives
- Expected Value — Probability × payoff
- Compounding — Exponential growth over time
- Margin of Safety — Room for error
Problem Solving
- First Principles Thinking — Break to fundamentals
- Map vs Territory — Model vs reality
- Hanlon’s Razor — Never attribute to malice
Strategy
- Leverage — Small effort, large effect
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🧠 Cognition/Mental Models/ — 12 core models
Cybernetics
The science of control, communication, and self-regulation in systems.
Core Concepts
- Feedback Loops — Circular causality, negative and positive feedback
- Homeostasis — Self-regulation toward equilibrium
- Law of Requisite Variety — Only variety can absorb variety
- Viable System Model — Five systems for organizational viability
- First vs Second-Order — The observer becomes part of the system
Advanced Topics
- Autopoiesis — Self-creating, self-maintaining systems
- Black Boxes — Understanding through input-output
- Information Theory — Quantifying surprise and entropy
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🧠 Cognition/Cybernetics/ — 9 core documents
Using These Tools
When arguing: Check for fallacies (yours and theirs)
When deciding: Watch for biases
When reasoning: Apply mental models
When learning: Notice which tools apply to current situation
Clear thinking is the foundation of the Convergence Protocol.