In his book How to build a mind Igor Aleksander writes “Iconic learning can also result in the learning of sequences of events in the world. This allows the organism to recall the causes of events and their outcomes. It is through this process that the organism acquires its planning ability, because it acquires the ability to imagine alternative outcomes from its own actions. This predictive capability allows the organism to ‘know’ the effect of its own actions on the world. In effect, this is like processing models of world which include one’s own position and role in it; that is a sense of ‘self’.
The ability to predict outcomes, combined with a sense of self, leads to the ability to make choices; these could be constrained by personal need or could be free and arbitrary. This ability to make choices is equivalent to another vital element of consciousness: that is, will.
An important corollary of all this is that it gives rise to differing personalities which are dependent on the choices made in the past.”
I am proposing that the choices made in the past to learn within the world we live in can be visited and re-visited as the world as an organism by itself changes. Hence, this is the impetus to the suggestions made earlier to visit and perhaps, re-visit the learning process through the established norms of learning to embrace what the COL has got to offer.
This does not mean that you need to throw away what is already there, but build new perspectives to adapt to what the world in the 21st century is offering. I will show you how the COL at the core of learning provides all the necessary tools to adapt, grow and enhance the experiences of learning in the 21st century.