The Connections Clock

If you divide up your waking attention according to the scale of its focus inward or outward with respect to three physical boundaries (skin, gene-pool, and culture), an interesting way to display the result is in the clock format shown below. The displacement off-center of the black dot denotes an individual's bias with respect to the various size scales, while the grey lines denote the fraction of their attention occupied with (hence the strength of their focus on) correlations on each of six levels. Objectively determining these numbers for a population of individuals is a separate story, alhough everyone can probably estimate how many of their last hundred hours involved a focus on self, friends, family, community/consensus, culture/belief, and profession/observation as shown below.   How does your niche multiplicity connect up?

Contributed by: P. Fraundorf

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