Cognitive Katas

Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems ... are related to different sorts of computation. The SNS correlates with abstraction, the ability to classify large data and handle it as small, in order to gain operational speed at the expense of accuracy. The PSNS correlates with reification, the ability to declassify rules and discover exceptions, in order to gain accuracy at the expense of quickness. Related respectively are the classical concepts of analysis and synthesis, though the language may not map cleanly. This is of course, useful as a modelling approach, or heuristic ... it can help us build machines which are more human, and it can remind us of how to engage different types of cognitive activity when we demand different systematic responses from our bodies.