



There are a few tenants that our pedagogy is predicated on.
1) Survival - Humans, like all other self-replicating molecules, are trying to survive. As such, their perceptual and cognitive systems evolved out of the environment under which humans generated. Of primary importance here, is that behavior is motivated by conscious and subconscious perception of what is appropriate for continued existence.
2) Information – The more effectively an organism processes information about its environment, the more suited it is for survival.
3) Processing – All experience is the processing of information on wetware. The more connected one is to an experience, the more information is obtained from that experience.
4) Emotion – Emotions are signals that contain information about the state of an organism as compared to that organism’s conceptualization of an ideal state for survival. In other words, emotion is a survival index, allowing for a visceral understanding of survivability. Negative emotion, emotion that is difficult to experience, indicates that an organism’s survival index is lowered relative its average state. Negative emotion lowers an organism’s survival index because when considering the processing tenant, one realizes that an emotion that is difficult to experience is information that is difficult to process.
5) Connection – As organisms become better at experiencing emotion, they are better able to process information about where they stand relative to their own respective survival index averages.
6) Fractals - Humans are all part of a fractal network. Fractals are mathematical equations that allow for the simple explanation of complex shapes. These shapes are self-similar because they are complex constructs generated from simple rules. All levels are similar to all others. Therefore, to operate on one level, in reality, is to operate on all levels. Therefore if we can integrate a unit into a fractal group, we, in fact, can alter the unit by altering the group. The relationships between organelles, cells, humans, groups, and societies are filled with analogue processes.
All this being considered, we turn to our task of education, and inform our pedagogy by the tenants above.
The education procedure is simple:
1. Organize students into groups. The goal is to create a group formed of parts, the students.
2. Present tasks. Allow problems to arise in the group.
3. Incentivize success/ de-incentivize failure at tasks. This creates pressure for the group to maximize efficient information processing within itself.
4. Facilitate Group Cohesion. Aid in the clearing of communication channels, using group successful completion of tasks as a benchmark for determining if intragroup communication lines are efficient/ effective.
5. Fractal Trickle Down. After the group becomes an efficient information processing unit, members will be effective information processing units in their own right. This can be referred to as healthy group function. Healthy groups can be identified by simple factors, such as happiness. But, in the end, “the health of the group” refers to its ability to dynamically respond to challenges by sufficiently sharing information between all group members to ensure safety. It could be said that this state also can describe a “healthy human” Health of the human refers to its ability to dynamically respond to challenges by sharing information between all facets of perception and cognition to ensure safety. Their constituent parts of information processing aka cortical localities, now ass information better among themselves, and efficiency is optimized. This allows students to process information on all different “intelligences circuitry.” Each of the multiple intellignces is then stimulated equally. Information processing, already in place through fractal transformation of individual through interface w/ healthy group, directs info to appropriate cortical locality.