Being HyperCognitive

Sometimes there’s just too much going on in the mind of a HyperCog, so much that we seem to be still, while our minds are actually running at 1000%…like right now.

Until just a minute ago, I seemed to be frozen! And, externally, I was frozen, looking blankly at the computer screen…though mentally, the picture was totally the opposite. My mind was working fast, ultra-fast, moving from topic to topic, idea to idea, and most of the time going over several different thoughts at the same time.

After hours of doing practically “nothing”, organizing a few things here, moving a few digital files there, just trying to get my mind together, trying to figure out what to do first, here I am, writing, basically about nothing much, just throwing words down at the keyboard…maybe just in order to get a sense of “hey, I finally did something”, when in truth, the feeling is of “I did absolutely nothing of worth”…

Damn! This is the mind of a HyperCog, trying to put order into the chaos of his mind, and also dealing with his inherent personal troubles…yep, HyperCogs tend to face annoying things, like OCD, ADHD, sometimes some BPD, and so on…

Alright…enough of writing. It’s so late…well, actually so early in the morning now…that I guess it’s about time for me to go watch some episodes of (one of) the series I’m currently watching, then take “my med” to try and sleep for the whole Sunday…

Bye!

Mind confusion and organization

One of the greatest problemas faced by the HyperCog, and alike, is the task of organizing and systematizing content, things, etc. Sometimes, it may be a real Herculean effort for some of us, specially due to the fact that it is plain too hard for hypercogs to look at a given thing/subject from a single point of view.

HyperCogs have a tendency to look at things from several points of view AT THE SAME TIME, which may bring with it a real problem when trying to organize things. We have a hard time choosing a starting point from which to begin an organization process. Then, we also start thinking about future needs that may affect any organization method we may end up choosing.

Take the task of organizing books, for instance. We may choose to organize our books by title. But, some day we may need to find an author, and would have to browse by the titles in order to find that specific author. If we organize the books by author, and forget who wrote that specific book, then we would have to browse through all the books again, to find that specific one. Organizing by genre would pose the same problems, even more, due to the fact that not all books fall under a single category: take books like "Island", by Aldous Huxley, for instance, which may be considered to be a fiction, a phylosophical book, etc.