Slow Cognition: The Curated Mind

Oliver Ding
Curativity Center
Published in
22 min readMar 15, 2022

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Every Mind A Curated Mind

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One week ago, I wrote a short note about “the Curated Mind” on Linkedin.

In the past several days, I continuously worked on the idea. Finally, I designed the following diagram yesterday. The new diagram uses Proximal Mind and Pervasive Mind to form a nested whole.

This is the model of the Curated Mind which is defined as an Anticipatory Activity System. As a system, the Curated Mind has two parts: Proximal Mind and Pervasive Mind.

This model adopted the ecological approach to reflect on the Mind. While Proximal Mind corresponds to Proximal Contexts, Pervasive Mind corresponds to Pervasive Mind.

  • Proximal Contexts (Proximal Mind)
  • Pervasive Contexts (Pervasive Mind)

A special meta-theory behind the model is Curativity Theory. The term Curativity refers to turning pieces into a meaningful whole. The Curated Mind means the ideal status of the mind. If a person claims that her or his mind is a meaningful whole, then she or he can understand the world as a meaningful whole.

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Oliver Ding
Curativity Center

Founder of CALL(Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.