What is the cognitive system of Indigenous communities that makes them pro-life, by default, unlike our cognitive system which is anti-life?
Natural cognition is rooted in biological imperatives whereas the ‘modern’ cognitive system is a mental construct. Indigenous communities have been able to create a life-sustaining knowledge system, unlike us, for whom sustainability is an afterthought- after all the destruction is done!
Unlike the modern notion of cognition, natural cognition is not merely a mental activity in the brain. It is a wholistic activity where the body, mind, and the world are involved and are responsible for shaping our total being-ness; not just ‘knowledge’ but our sense of value, and aesthetic awareness.
Introduction to Natural Cognition (youtube.com)
Literate is TAUGHT the WORD; illiterates LEARN the WORLD, autonomously. This means the literates learn the CONTAINER- THE PACKAGE whereas the illiterates learn the CONTENT.
Literates are ‘fed’ the readymade description, organized and concluded whereas the illiterates are exploring the real world, imbibing the experience as it is and through self-organization creating ‘understanding’.
Setting up Natural Cognition Lab (youtube.com)
The purpose is to explore and if possible, reclaim our natural cognitive system which is about creating knowledge of the real world that we experience. Natural cognition, unlike the modern notion of cognition, is not merely a mental activity that happens in the mind but a wholistic activity where the body, mind, and the world are involved and are responsible for shaping our total being-ness- not just ‘knowledge’ but our sense of value, and aesthetic awareness.
Story of the Centipede — How Modern Humans Forgot to Learn (youtube.com)
The other side of learning is that the literates’ cognitive system is shaped by the WORD — ready-made, concluded information where whereas the cognitive system of illiterates is shaped by the WORLD- open, ever-changing.
The whole paradigm of modernity, including alternatives, is based on this delusionary system created by a distorted view of the world created by a damaged cognitive system.
FOR WHOM
This is for people who are deeply interested in what is going wrong with the ‘modern’ world. The retreat is for exploring deeper into the way how we, the so-called educated have turned against life whereas the illiterates, indigenous people have been in alignment with the natural flow of life. We will explore how this ‘anti-life beingness’ got formed. Naturally, children will be the focus as it is in childhood that our beingness gets shaped and like the foundation of the building once made firmly difficult to undo the damages done to the foundation except for some repair job on the superstructure.
The retreat is for people who are exploring
1. Indigenous knowledge system- knowing by Being and not by reading and thinking…
2. Indian knowledge system- through rediscovery and not through reading and analysis.
3. Phenomenology — phenomenologically
4. Embodied cognition — Through the body and not by mind
5. What is wrong with the Western knowledge paradigm
6. Damages of literacy
7. Damages of schooling, teaching, following various methods
8. Reimagining the entire education system
Also for
1. De-schoolers, un-schoolers, home-schoolers
2. Parents who want to understand how children create knowledge and how teaching damages this natural ability
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https://jinankb5.wixsite.com/naturalcognition
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