Posted by alexandra_k on May 18, 2005, at 16:39:14
In reply to More like a mental array or mosaic for me., posted by gardenergirl on May 18, 2005, at 10:59:06
> My brain works more like a mental mosaic. And all the pieces seem to "light up" all the surrouding pieces, too. Maybe even a mental "word find" game...all the letters can make lots of words, but I have to find the right word/concept for the moment.
Sounds like a neural network to me...
The 'lighting up' are the exitatory connections... 'Sparrow' makes you think 'bird' 'flies' 'feathers' etc etc...
> Good for creativity. Makes logic hard. Intuition rules for me. But it makes it really hard to 'splain my thinking to others. Funny, I expect them to take what I say on faith at times, if I can't communicate the parts of the big picture adequately. But me take someone else's statement on blind faith? No way!
> The other good part is I can get hours of entertainment following my associations. :D:-)
The other side to that is inhibitory connections.
So when you think something like P is true then you are supposed to be able to inhibit P is false for the rest of the puzzle..I think I get what you mean, though.
Logic comes hard for people.
We are a connectionist system on the neural level(a neural net).
(That is opposed to how a computer works where it just follows rules)
We can follow rules, but they come harder...
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