How Things Go Wrong: Breakdowns in Organization

Abstract

Over the course of this book, we’ve adopted the neuropsychological concept of organization to help us characterize the unconscious processes that enable us to learn. While we are using the term in a technical sense, it is helpful for our purposes to note that organization, in the everyday sense of the word, is evocative of structure and activity. These connotations are entirely apt – they help to highlight just how much activity our minds are constantly engaged in, which, though unaware of it, we are entirely dependent upon to make our experience comprehensible and in order to learn.