"We got it all, and we are still drooling into our oat meal as far as situational awareness goes, and cognition."
Everything is continually changing; we often forget about ourselves and the safety system we inhabit.
‘Wayfinding’ Michael Bond
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Modern humans interact with the world in much the same way that prehistoric humans did. We may travel further and faster, and we have some fabulously clever instruments to help us get around, but the manner in which we use our brains to stay orientated is not so different,
We scout landmarks, attend to our surroundings, memorise vistas, build 'cognitive maps' and generally keep our spatial wits about us, just as the hunter-gatherers of the Pleistocene did. Some of us are a lot better at this than others, and that is the way it has always been.
At least, this was the case until around the year 2000; since then, a great deal has changed. Many of us now delegate all that cognitive heavy lifting to GPS-enabled navigation tools, which guide us where we want to go without us having to attend to anything. Follow the blue dot on your smartphone app or obey your satnav's spoken instructions and you'll arrive at your destination without having troubled the place cells in your hippocampus or the decision-making circuitry of your prefrontal cortex. You won't have to know how you got there or remember anything about the route you took. For the first time in the history of human evolution, we have stopped using many of the spatial skills that have sustained us for tens of thousands of years."
… pay attention to the surroundings, build a mental map, shape character of items, links, sequence of turns.
GPS turns the world into abstract embedded in a digital device. Web searches, instant answers, we exchange for absolute certainty, we sacrifice our sense of place - replacing cognitive skill with technology - reassign mental resource.
Situation awareness; perception, comprehension, - sufficient to identify required SOP; yet SOPs imply completeness, an assured outcome; thus no projection aspect of SA, no thinking ahead, being ready for surprises.
Technology promotes the use of automated response strategies - like a robot.
The issue is not to stop using the phone (technology),
its being aware of the decision and the effects it might have … we move through the world unaware, and not be affected by our lack of knowledge. No immediate raw experience of the real, we miss the opportunity to develop rich knowledge an rich remembering.
Also; in a very safe industry, training emphasis on SOP compliance oppose the skills required to manage the unexpected.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9o7da1hmi5fsr0z/From individuals to the evolution of safety paradigms Paries +++.pdf?dl=0
"operators will find it even more difficult to construct a ‘mental model’ of the machine and to predict and understand what it is doing. We already know the associated negative effects: overconfidence in the machine; loss of comprehension; issues with alertness; loss of basic know-how, which remains crucial in degraded mode. "
https://link.springer.com/content/pd...031-07805-7_13
https://www.researchgate.net/profile...ication_detail