I attach the work sheets from our campus session on Ethics 12th March 2013. I am happy to communicate on any of the issues, but you can also
follow the Blog's of students who attended the session and who have
posted on the discussions.
You need to look at students on the Module 2 list
Monday, 18 March 2013
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
More on Kahneman ... and on Reflection
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According to David Kahneman, there are two ‘self’s’, the experiencing
self and the remembering self.
Our ‘Experiencing Self’ apprehends the moment-to-moment experiences.
It is the remembering self that creates the story of our lives. Our remembering
self is the storyteller. All of our experiences are forgotten. According to Kahneman
it is our remembering Self that forms the memory ‘based on’ the experience,
i.e. we don’t remember the experience, we remember a highly selective representation
of the experience.
Interesting, Kahneman identifies the paramount importance of
endings in our experiences. According to Kahneman our memories are strongly
influenced by the ending of specific experiences. Bear in mind as best as we
can tell, our experiences (in the moment) last as a mental formation for around
3 seconds.
Research has shown that the duration of our experiences
matters very little. Whether this is of a painful surgical procedure, or a holiday.
So if we go on holiday for 1 week or two weeks, it does not affect the overall
memory of the experience. The
duration of our experience-events barely impacts on the memory. How the experience
ends plays a far greater influence on the memory that is formed.
So we can think of our experiences ads being ‘voiceless (Kahneman).
It is the Remembering Self that dictates what we make of our experiences.
Finally, Kahneman slips between the definition of memory as
the ‘Remembering Self’ and the ‘Reflective Self’. The implications of this are that we can construct, intentionally,
a memory of our experiences that can add positively to our professional
practice. I urge you to look at Kahneman’s TED lecture.
You might also like to view some concluding thoughts from a
discussion with students on the topic of reflection.
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