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Continual Learning
Time Impact on Learning/Knowledge
Brain Memory Learning
Knowledge Fragile Align Communications for
Fragility of Knowledge, Fades
Remembering (Linked Records - Traceability,
Limited Span of Attention

1409 -    ..
1410 - Summary/Objective
1411 -
141101 - Follow up ref SDS 2 line 201, ref SDS 2 line 278.
141102 -
141103 - An Associated Press article in Friday's Chronicle announced a report
141104 - on a study to be published in the journal "Science" that finds "time"
141105 - is an important factor in learning new motor skills, ref OF 6 line 14.
141106 -
141107 -      [See follow up telecon with Carolyn Cave, ref SDS 12 line 68.]
141108 -
141109 - "It is not enough to simply practice...,
141110 - ..
141111 - You have to allow time to pass for the brain to encode the new
141112 - skill." ref OF 6 line 16.
141113 -
141114 -     This lends support to view that time is a critical factor in
141115 -     converting information into knowledge, per analysis of Tom
141116 -     Landauer's paper, ref SDS 3 6666, and as also set out in the New
141117 -     World Order paper, POIMS, and the Corps of Engineers report.  It
141118 -     was also posed for the Asilomar agenda in 1976 stating:
141119 -
141120 -          Changing to "automated knowledge" by integrating time and
141121 -          information is the next step in the march of civilization.
141122 -
141123 -          .., ref OF 4 line 41.
141124 -
141125 -     [Related to limited span of attention that leads to information
141126 -     entropy, per review of book at ref SDS 11 line 222.]
141127 -
141128 -     [Cited in telecon with Jim Jones at HQ USACE on 971017, ref SDS 14
141129 -     line 137.]
141130 -
141131 -     POIMS paper...
141132 -
141133 -          ...solution requires a better way to convert information into
141134 -          what managers really need: knowledge and ideas. POIMS is
141135 -          therefore a technology to lift human capacity to think,
141136 -          remember and communicate to a new level, ref OF 2 line 79.
141137 -
141138 -          Performing the plan yields information which is reported as
141139 -          experience. Subsequent reflection on experience may yield
141140 -          ideas that impact future plans. Will I remember? POIMS, ref
141141 -          OF 2 line 208.
141142 -
141143 -     New World Order paper...
141144 -
141145 -          ...Information Highway, however, vitiates traceability and
141146 -          continual learning. Every day there is more to trace and more
141147 -          to learn. We don't have time to look up original sources.
141148 -          Limited time forces reliance on what seems right at the
141149 -          moment. Shortcuts and fudging on principals appear help- ful.
141150 -          Deviations from the truth take root, ref OF 3 line 224.
141151 -
141152 -          ...biological fact: evolution is slow. The capacity to
141153 -          "think" is constant relative to the accelerated pace of
141154 -          information in the modern era, ref OF 3 line 470.
141155 -
141156 -              [Related to limited span of attention that leads to
141157 -              information entropy, per review of book at ref SDS 11
141158 -              line 222.]
141159 -
141160 -              [People do not have enough time to think, per ref SDS 13
141161 -              line 472.]
141162 -
141163 -          ...formation gridlock. More information reduces productivity
141164 -          unless a faster way is found to convert information into
141165 -          knowledge, ref OF 3 line 512.
141166 -
141167 -          ... coping with too many details. If we continue relying
141168 -          solely on the mental process of summarizing complexity, then
141169 -          the correlation between time and information (i.e., absorbing
141170 -          more information from more sources in the same amount of
141171 -          time), greatly increases the chance of error. This portends a
141172 -          management imploding on itself, spending more time correcting
141173 -          mistakes, than on moving ahead, ref OF 3 line 496.
141174 -
141175 -              [Related to limited span of attention that leads to
141176 -              information entropy, per review of book at ref SDS 11
141177 -              line 222.]
141178 -
141179 -              [People do not have enough time to think, per ref SDS 13
141180 -              line 472.]
141181 -
141182 - The Associated Press article says research indicates the brain
141183 - transfers "memory" in learning new motor skills from temporary storage
141184 - in the front of the brain to permanent storage in the back of the
141185 - brain over a 5 - 6 hour period, ref OF 6 line 20.
141186 -
141187 -
141188 -  ..
141189 - Window of Vulnerability Due to New Information Too Quickly
141190 -
141191 - The article cites a "window of vulnerability" for loosing memory of a
141192 - new skill, from trying to learn another new skill during the 5 - 6
141193 - hour window of vulnerability.  It causes errosion of prior learning,
141194 - ref OF 6 line 25.
141195 -
141196 - This seems to support the simpler notion that trying to absorb too
141197 - much information in a short time span results in not understanding
141198 - anything and likely commingling unrelated information, per my letter,
141199 - ref SDS 9 0070, to Walter Kintsch, who is Tom Landauer's colleague
141200 - working on LSA.
141201 -
141202 -      [On 970829 reviewed book explaining limited span of attention
141203 -      causes information entropy. ref SDS 11 7721]
141204 -
141205 -      [On 970910 not enough time to think. ref SDS 13 3479]
141206 -
141207 -      [On 990303 scientific paper on limits of human mind processing
141208 -      information due to limited span of attention. ref SDS 15 6120]
141209 -
141210 - One has to wonder how the mind can transfer enough information that is
141211 - important, and also maintain correlations with prior understandings,
141212 - contract requirements and commitments for action long enough for them
141213 - to be "learned" adequately by transfer to "long term memory," as
141214 - described in the article for learning mortor skills, ref OF 6 line 21.
141215 -
141216 - It seems to reflect analysis of Tom Landauer's paper on Plato's
141217 - Problem and LSA, describing time as a factor in learning, ref SDS 4
141218 - line 361, and further at ref SDS 6 line 202.  It also supports the
141219 - concept of information entropy reported by AFIT, ref SDS 7 line 302.
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141221 -
141222 - Research Prospects
141223 -
141224 - The following sources are listed in the article:
141225 -
141226 -     Dr. Henry H. Holcomb
141227 -     Psychiatrist
141228 -     Johns Hopkins Unversity
141229 -
141230 -     Studying how people remember ref OF 6 line 15.
141231 -
141232 -
141233 -     Dr. Carolyn B. Cave
141234 -     Psychologist and Learning Researcher
141235 -     Vanderbilt University
141236 -
141237 -     Studying how people remember ref OF 6 line 40.
141238 -
141239 -     Would Carolyn be interested in study considered by Santa Clara
141240 -     University, ref SDS 1 line 202.
141241 -
141242 -      [See follow up telecon with Carolyn Cave, ref SDS 12 line 68.]
141243 -
141244 - Wonder if these folks have done the research I asked Tom Landauer
141245 - about on rates of error in meetings, ref SDS 10 line 116.  The letter
141246 - issued on 970731 at ref SDS 9 line 101, also explains scope of a
141247 - study.
141248 -
141249 -      [Study has been done on memory loss, but not on differences from
141250 -      meetings, ref SDS 12 line 187.]
141251 -
141252 - What about the effect of writing things down as an aid to remember?
141253 -
141254 - What about the ratio of preparation time to remembering.
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