Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 02:02:59 +0100
From: Chris Lees <chrislees@easynet.co.uk>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: On Gatherer's behaviourist stance
Hello,
Regarding Bruce's description of his thinking processes,I also think in
visual
imagery,which I then have to translate into text or words.
I find that the disadvantage is the delay which this translation
causes.I'm
often impatient and miss out pieces of the pictures which I can see in
my
mind's eye,and assume,unjustifiably,that the recipient listener or
reader is also
aware of.I've compared the problem to having to describe a fast moving
tv
commercial to a blind person.It would be difficult or even impossible,to
convey
exact description of all that imagery in words alone,certainly in a
similar
period of time.
The advantage however,is that I can think in full colour 3D,and also
have
several 'sentences' running concurrently.
I had always assumed that everyone's mental mechanism functioned in a
similar fashion to my own,and it was quite a surprise to learn that that
is not
the case.The discovery explained many difficulties and frustrations that
had
previously baffled me for decades.
On occasion,I have noticed that while speaking on the telephone,I have
moved
the line of inner thought for the telephone conversation to one corner
of a visualised
cube or pyramid,so as to focus upon that thread of ideas in isolation
from other
mental formations,regarding other topics,which are running
simultaneously.
There are some notes upon this matter which I found helpful at:
http://www.famu.edu/sjmga/ggrow/WriteVisual/WriteVisual.html
Regards,
Chris.
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