The purpose of the Parmenides EIDOS™ methodology is to help close this gap. It utilises the powerful parallel processing capabilities of the visual sense for supporting thinking and reasoning tasks. People who have to analyse problems, develop strategies and make decisions can benefit most from it.
The task of Parmenides EIDOS™ is to translate the new challenges in a way that the outstanding visual processing skills which we do possess can be used for solving them – hence the idea of a visual reasoning language.
Rapidly increasing complexity and an accelerating pace of structural change constitute qualitatively new challenges for which human cognition is not well prepared.
The last major evolutionary transition of the human brain was the development of syntactical language skills – about 100 thousand years ago. Most of the human brain, instead, is still the result of adaptations to environments and challenges that are millions of years old. In this setting fast recognition of complex visual patterns, often highly blurred, was crucial. Our respective skills are outstanding.
Today we have to understand and shape highly complex structures and dynamics to which we often do not even have direct perceptual access. Representing them via language-based thinking processes has severe constraints. Both, our working memory capacities and our actual processing routines are very limited in this regard.
The present gap between challenges and innate cognitive skills has emerged because cultural evolution outpaced biological evolution by orders of magnitude.
