The ''Other'' Knowledge
John David Balla,
Knowledge Management,
Aug 19, 2003
It's hard to know what to say about this item. One thing is that it taps into some important underlying truths about cognition - that we think in images and symbols, that there are habitual and instinctual elements to intelligence, that these are sometimes manifest as what we would call a 'hunch' or an instinct. But mixed in with this is some of the worst of pop psychology. That distinct cultures 'recognized the need to manage (or control) the way the ego and the will interact" is less evidence of a collective unconscious than of a common physiology. Indeed, such slicing and dicing of mental processes in such a cumbersome (and unenlightening) fashion does not advance our understanding. I really don't think we can (or should) distinguish between the conscious and the unconscious portions of our mind: it's all part of a single system, as are the so-called 'will' and other pseudo-mental entities. The mind is a complex layering of tapestries the patterns which are in a constant flux and intermingling, an interplay only the surface features of which we are aware. The design of a knowledge management system ought to reflect this reality, not some arrangement of internal homonculi that explain nothing.
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