Mind-Drive to Problem Solving and Decision Making

Automatic vs. controlled, convergent vs. divergent, implicit vs. explicit, reflexive vs. reflective processing correspond to cognitive dichotomies that have been around for a few generation and have contributed to the development of many neurocognitive models and systems in the past century. Among them, the Elementary Pragmatic Model (EPM) was developed in the 1980s, following Gregory Bateson's systemic approaches, according to general systems theory requirements. Initially it was used as a theoretical family therapy model to classify the outcomes of dyadic interactions. It was used successfully by a group of therapists in family therapy and in clinical field. Later it was applied to develop interactive psychotherapy strategies, online counseling and E-therapy. Since the beginning of new millennium its application area was extended and then applied even to engineering problems like requirements satisfaction, software creativity and adaptive system design and development. As a matter of fact, EPM is a high versatile tool and new application areas are envisaged continuosly. As an example, quite recently, it contributed to find an original solution to the dreadful double-bind problem in classic information and algorithmic theory (i.e. our computational information contemporary classic systemic tools are totally unable to capture and to tell the difference between an information-rich message and a random jumble of signs that we call "noise" usually). In turn, this new awareness has enlarged our panorama for neurocognitive system behaviour uderstanding, and to develop information conservation and regeneration systems. A few examples are presented.