We perceive and interpretate reality using unconscious frameworks in our brains. The Exploration Brain Framework is another type of cognition available to us in the absence of the goal-seeking information processing framework. Our experience reveals that removing goals, while nurturing a spirit of open curiosity, can open up faculties of cognition and perception that we were previously unaware of.

We have anecdotal evidence of our experiences being somehow ‘brighter’ when we are immersed in such an explorative framework. Not only do we experience reality differently, but we begin to relate to each other differently. We stop being utilitarian about everything and everyone. We want to design and build environments that trigger this framework, so that we and others can delve deeper into these experiences.

From what we have garnered, this framework triggers learning and neuroplasticity. This can be experienced directly as the “sensation” of inner growth, and the sensation of being in front of a new field of possibilities in regards of our behaviour and actions. You can likely recall key moments in your life when this sensation was prevalent. The hypothesis here is that these moments can be made longer and more intense provided the right environment, and in doing so, we can establish different relationships with everything around us.

We wish to create an environment where goal-oriented activity isn’t the dominant force, and where all activity, even when seeking goals, is part of a broader “exploration framework” driving our behaviour and information processing.

Goal-oriented behaviour is confined to what is known, which is a limited place to reside. Conversely, the Exploration Brain Framework addresses what we don’t know, which is an unlimited psychological space to live in. So much neuroticism could be removed from our lives and from the world if we were able to live in such a space.

However, this is a shaky and uncertain proposition whose outcomes are unknowable. So far, we have confined this type of exploration to our own private quarters, like the good kids we are. This is where both words and the online world stop working, and only in-person communion can elicit the desired response. It is the reason why we need a physical place where to experiment.