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Introduction

Blockchainized Bachelor’s Thesis

Blockchainized Bachelor’s Thesis – Initial Brainstorm

Thesis

1.Abstract

2.Preface

3.Introduction

4.Definitions of terms and premises

4.1.Information

4.2.Information explosion

4.3.Information age

4.4. Information society

4.5. Information literacy

5.Information overload as an issue

5.1.1.Thought

Sources walkthrough

1.Battling Information Overload in the Information Age

2.1.The knowledge-attention-gap: Do we underestimate the problem of information overload in knowledge management? pt.1

2.2.The knowledge-attention-gap: Do we underestimate the problem of information overload in knowledge management? pt. 2

3.Database Research faces the Information Explosion

4.The experience of mobile information overload: struggling between needs and constraints

5.Longer online reviews are not necessarily better

6.An ant-colony based approach for real-time implicit collaborative information seeking

7.A psychological framework to enable effective cognitive processing in the design of emergency management information systems

Case study: Interview

1.First draft

5. Information overload as an issue

In the definition of information I have introduced information as a psychophysiological phenomenon and a process in which’s narrower sense the information is actually the stimulus of the outside world that our consciousness receives and processes in order to experience and understand the world. Just like Cejpek, I realize that I am moving onto the ground of hypotheses, and the validity of this premise can be refuted by future research [6]. When examining any problem, however, it must be based on some premises and I will follow the life work of Cejpek for the purposes of this work.

Cejpek claims that the above-defined information is perceived by the human being through his senses. The information that passes through the “first layer sensory filter” goes right into the brain where it is evaluated. If this evaluation is conscious, it happens through an activity that we call thinking [6]. Another key aspect that needs to be deciphered before examining information overload and its consequences and possible methods of its elimination, is from my point of view attention itself. Attention is basically a conscious focus on the ability to think about any given problem.

So, in order to investigate the issue of information overload, it is absolutely essential to at least try to understand how the brain, the mind itself and the ability of the brain to concentrate on an issue works. Although many great researches have already been accomplished, science is in the very beginnings of examining how exactly the brain works, therefore the whole issue must be examined empirically rather than by exact science (even though we can use some of those researches).

5.1.1. Thought

For the Steem purposes I’m going to start with the chapter “thought” instead of “brain” in order to maintain more or less the same length of articles.

Thought, according to many evolutionary theories, has evolved to enable an individual to outsmart his counterparts, be they members of another specie, a enemy tribe, or simply to compete for a sexual partners in the very same tribe. As usually is the case in biology, the stimulus was simply the need to survive and multiply. Evolution, however, did not stop when purely primal use for the mind was born. In order for the individuals to be able to compete with themselves by their "cleverness", the development of the brain and the mind continued [10]. Today, we use the mind, except for the aforementioned situations, which are still valid, for more effective operation in an increasingly complex world.

 

Neurophysiologists call our inner experience of the world the endocept. Endocept is an extensive system of ideas, plans, expectations, etc. linked to the abstraction of our value-ladder. It is formed by past individual, group or ancestral experience and knowledge. Due to that the human brain does not receive information impulses only from the outside, but also from the inside. Any evaluation of the information that our brain has done in the past will pre-program it in the future. As is the case, to some extent, with genetic pre-programmed information. Everything new is confronted with past experiences by the human brain. Everything we are currently experiencing is always measured by already created mental images. If we evaluate the information to be relevant for us, our endocept will be affected to a certain extent (depending on subjective relevance). In other words, endocept enriches and restructuralize itself through the new knowledge, perceptions and overall information acquisitions. Endocept can therefore also be seen as a personality fund of man, or what makes us who we are [6].

 

Thinking is therefore an act of confronting incoming information from objective reality with our endocept, or simple internal evaluation, or critical evaluation of information that we have already absorbed, which, of course, is also influenced by the endocept. When we evaluate this information as useful, it will begin to some extent modify (or build) our endocept. In such a case the extent is directly dependent on the relevance we have adjudicated to the information. Endocept (our conscious and unconscious self) influences what actually passes through our information filters, therefore what becomes the subject of conscious critical thinking and what does not.

 

Many schools and trends working in the field of self-improvement or “psyche treating” are based on the belief that autonomous thinking can be controlled. By mastering autonomous thinking, we can extraordinarily enrich our potential, the mind abilities, but also the personality fund, or to greatly boost our ability to deal with information overload [6].

Sources

6.CEJPEK, Jiří. Informace, komunikace, myšlení: Úvod do informační vědy. 1. vyd. Praha : Karolinum, 1998. 179 s. ISBN 80-7184-767- 4.

10.RIDLEY, Matt. The red queen: sex and the evolution of human nature. New York: Perennial, 2003. ISBN 978-0060556570.

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