The Four Expression of Intelligence and Swiss Cheese Mind

The Universal Key

These days, there is an epidemic of "Swiss Cheese Mind".

-- not that I have anything against swiss cheese.  I don't.  Swiss cheese was among my favorites, during my cheese-eating days.

But I don't want my mind like that.

Swiss Cheese Mind is a condition in which you are operating like a car with a flat tire, or with cylinders misfiring.

Swiss Cheese Mind gives rise to brain farts -- and we have those happening all around us.  Just start up some software and look for the bugs.

Swiss Cheese Mind has holes.  Those holes are gaps in our attention, when we miss seeing things that are there.  They're like not-so-clear or even self-conflicting intentions ... forgotten memories and chaotic imaginings.

We have a screw loose -- or a few screws loose.

So, while I liked swiss cheese, I don't want my mind like that.

What causes it?

Mad Cow Disease?  Education?

Well, in a way yes.

Education teaches us ...

to remember, 

but not necessarily to imagine ...

... to attend,

but not necessarily how to pay attention...

to intend to remember

but not necessarily to intend with integrity

and hardly at all how to imagine.

Education in its common form educates unevenly.

and so, no wonder:  
Swiss-Cheese Mind

Memory needs attention and intention.

Not so easy to remember something with no attention on it.

Go ahead.  Try it.

See what I mean?

You even had to add some intention, didn't you?

and you imagined the whole thing.

Swiss Cheese Mind.

Now, you know what those words feel like ...

and what we do to fill in some of those holes, when memory fails us:  we fill in gaps of memory with imagination.

That explains the increasing numbers of blockheads coming out of our educational institutions.

When we enliven all four -- attention, memory, intention and imagination -- equally, with all four reinforcing the others -- we get

Swiss Cheese without the holes!