I'm exploring what happens when we treat our minds as extended (socially-shaped) systems, and what that means for living through a polycrisis.

https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/mental-models-polycrisis-2/

#SystemsThinking #MentalModels #Complexity #DigitalLiteracies

A lot of advice these days still assumes crises are isolated events.

But in a polycrisis the overall impact of these events exceeds the sum of each part.

Our old, linear mental models do not cope well with feedback loops, time delays, and structural risk.

In this post, I talk about epistemic humility, three bias-aware habits to cultivate, and why mental models sit at the root of systems change.

https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/mental-models-polycrisis/

#polycrisis #mentalmodels #systemsthinking #complexsystems #climate #ai