Welcome to the BigSky CogSci WeChat group!

My name is Tim Smith and I am the moderator of the “BigSky CogSci” WeChat group.

One of the major goals of this group is to build a Psychology of Learning, Self-Development and Happiness. As we go we will create unique vantage points from which to think about and construct things with ideas found around the vicinity of the Cognitive Sciences.

My most important job as the host of this WeChat group is to provide something interesting every day to move us along toward that goal. My second most important job is to put those “interesting things” on this website and to set a little world in motion where they take up a life of their own. That's all I am gonna tell you now - how we do all of this is part of the experiment (hint - knowledge engineering and game theory are involved).

Right now your job is to consider these “interesting things” when you feel like it and get a little bit familiar with them. You might try to figure what were going to do with each one.

For most of us there will opportunities to work together in person, in subsets and groups - but that will never be required. You will be able to keep track of everything, anytime on the website.

*** I will tell you one more thing (some of you have already heard about it on the news). There is something mysterious going on in a region called "Big Sky Mountains." That's the area where the real Big Sky Cafe is located. Right now I know just enough to say that it's going to matter to this group - more later - gotta go.

If this is your first time please take a look at Disclaimers.

That's it. That's all we need to start.

Here is your first concept:

Lateral Thinking - thought processes and internal experiences which combine facts, knowledge, memory, impressions and insights in ways that are liberated from the conventional systems of categorization.