Research & Development
I have helped several companies solidify their market leadership by assisting with the development of proprietary technology and intellectual property. My R&D work includes contributions to the Nix Pro Color Sensor and RQ Relationship Intelligence assessment.
Alongside my corporate R&D work, I have contributed to academic research in education, neuroscience, philosophy, and archaeology. I have also developed products that leverage new insights in developmental psychology and neuroscience. Below is a small selection of this work.
Washington University Sentence Completion Test (Abridged)
A Cost-Effective Tool for Evaluating Vertical Development
The WUSCT-Abridged is a streamlined version of Jane Loevinger’s original sentence completion test, adapted for use in small businesses or individual coaching. It offers a low-cost, high-impact alternative grounded in rigorous developmental psychology.
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Noustheios (Custom GPT)
Expanded Consciousness | Self-Actualization | Spiritual Awareness
Noustheios is a Custom GPT designed to help you develop inner peace, wisdom, and deeper spiritual awareness. It uses a combination of coaching best practices and spiritual principles to provide guidance, insights, and questions that help you grow from the inside out.
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Published Works
Psychology & Neuroscience | Education | Philosophy | Physics | Theology
Psychology & Neuroscience
The Bicameral Expert
On the neuropsychology of intuition and its role in modern society
- A defining feature of expert performance is the speed at which complex decisions are made.
- Experts use intuition, a form of pre-cognitive knowing, to make difficult decisions quickly.
- Intuition is guided by pattern recognition – the comparison of new information to “chunks”, “schemas”, or “scripts” stored in long-term memory. Experts relying on intuition can quickly compare new information to what they already know and have seen before.
- Intuitive thinking is managed by the brain’s right hemisphere, which some neuroscientists believe is also responsible for the phenomenon of “inner voices”.
- In order to develop expertise, we must develop knowledge of patterns which can be used by the right hemisphere to quickly identify and respond to new information.
Scaffolds & Sophistry
On the relationship between consciousness, language, and competence
- Modern humans have access to a tremendous amount of information, and are faced with the challenge of deciding what information is reliable. Many people struggle with this.
- The human need for information is driven by how we think. Humans construct a mental model of the world, which they use to make decisions and anticipate likely outcomes.
- Conscious access to these mental models is mediated by language. Specifically, language is the medium through which humans construct narratives about the world.
- Unconscious access to these mental models seems to be pre-verbal, symbolic, and “beyond words”. It is governed by intuition and feeling.
- The real issue with lies, deception, and misinformation is that they corrupt the mental models of people subjected to them. This affects both their conscious narratives and their unconscious intuition.
- Sustained exposure to lies, deception, and misinformation can result in ideological possession, an extreme form of mental corruption which leads to radicalization.
- The sophistication of someone’s mental model is related to their stage of “ego development”, which can be measured through language-based tools like the WUSCT.
- People at lower stages of development are more vulnerable to ideological possession.
- The development of consciousness is one of the most important functions of education, yet is not a primary concern.
Education
Critical Thinking & Intellectual Virtues
A Framework for Teaching and Evaluating Critical Thinking
Many educators lack methods to teach or assess critical thinking, and most educators lack a definition for the concept. In response to these challenges, I developed an approach to fostering critical thinking based on intellectual virtues. A framework of four “cardinal” intellectual virtues (Precision, Objectivity, Openness, and Humility) provides the basis for a framework of ninety-six distinct knowledges, values, skills, and behaviors.
Philosophy
A Commentary For All And None
Explaining Nietzsche's Love of the Downgoing and For His Fellow Man