José Martín Juárez Blog

15 November 2009

Why intelligent beings do not act accordingly (Intelligent Development of Representations in Mind-III). The application of EBI to individuals

In previous posts we define human intelligence and its immense capacity for learning, creativity and problem solving from an evolutionary process. We call this intelligent development of representations in mind; we also established the principles for their examination and artificial replication from the point of view Biomimetic and from the rational standpoint.
In this post I will introduce the potentials of the Evidence-based investigative intelligence and its techniques as applied to the cognitive restructuring of individuals.
On a daily basis we see, in ourselves and those around us, behaviour that seem, erroneous counterproductive, incoherent, destructive and ultimately detrimental to both the subject and others. Someone very close and wise, once told me, and I have been able to double check this, that relativity does not exist in human behaviour due to the fact that as beings dependent on others, the natural and social ecosystem. From the Pythagorean point of view, the positive is the behaviour and decisions that add up to the maximum and the negative is what subtract most.

Scientific disciplines such as psychology, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology and in particular neuroscience, have worked long and delved much into the diagnosis from the perspective of behavioural origins and have given us clues to explore avenues of evolution and regeneration of them.


Based on the aforementioned, I will focus the remainder of this post on visualising how the methods, strategies and techniques of Evidence Based Investigative Intelligence can help us in a personal complex and gradual transformation which is driven by the vital volitional principle inherent in a more or less evident manner in any individual.

Cognitive restructuring through the techniques of the EBI can modify unsafe behaviours in insurance, large or small worldviews, modify "drudgery" for challenges, unhappiness for happiness, lack of goals for an influx of them, personal failure for successful, lack of solidarity for solidarity, mistaken patterns for rational foundations, destructive pursuits, subjectivity for objectivity and fears amongst other things

In my personal and research experience I have been able to confirm that bad or evil behaviour exist and it is embodied in people.
I have also been able to confirm that a high percentage are however influenced strongly by strategic and personal information management errors i.e., errors in the approach to mission objectives that anthropologists and biologists use to trace unequivocally our existence; errors in the planning of data gathering and in the evaluation of credibility, reliability, accuracy and usefulness methods of the mentioned information, errors in the analysis and proofs of the same and finally errors in decisions to be made and actions to be taken in the real world.

In my opinion, the anxiety, fear, unhappiness or aggression are clear symptoms of the conscience of a malfunction of these strategies, procedures and methods. I am sure that learning and training in information collection and evaluation techniques such as world observations, the study of documents, the premeditated exchange information and asking for the opinions of others along with analysis techniques, synthesis and structured processing, can significantly improve the functioning of our mind/brain duality, can progressively and consciously improve the lives of individuals.

Since some time back I have been pursuing the objective of preparing courses for personal and professional groups, so they may improve their efficiency in strategic information management processes and I will not let another minute go by. Far from producing self-help courses based on personal experiences or sectarian doctrines the idea is to use the scientific approach and the product of our research for everyday use and for everyday human benefit in private and professional lives.

Rest assured that in my facet as intelligence analyst, when I used, these principles they have improved my worldview and my behaviour. My research in recent years has been devoted to improving the strategic information management, its operating procedures, its epistemological meaning and its overall framework applicable to all human activities. I sincerely believe that this is appending revolution which will if successful, change the educational and behavioural patterns of society, heading toward a more reflective knowledge society, just and free from hypocrisy and malicious archetypes.