05 September 2011

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.