Re: Do developers think more textually than graphically?

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:45:35 GMT, Tim Tyler <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>AndyW <foo_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote or quoted:
>
>> As I said in an earlier post, you use the same mechanism to think as
>> you do to talk - just the voice box is turned off.
>>
>> Ditto with most other senses. Remember, memory and thought are
>> trigged by size and duration and strength of the sense(s) being used.
>
>I don't just think verbally. For me, verbal thoughts are the tip of an
>iceberg.
>
>Would you really claim that deaf and dumb individuals had no thoughts?

The mechanism for for actuating hearing and speech are the ear drums
and the voice box. For a person to be dumb or deaf the appropriate
unit has to be busted.

This has nothing to do with the area of the brain that controls this
mechanism. Vocalising a thought is merely the action of switching on
the voice box. The sound of the thought still happens whether its
vocalised or not - you have no control over this - its a brain
function.

Likewise for hearing and sight (visualisation). It would be a mistake
to think that the ears are the only parts to access the hearing
mechanism of the brain and the eyes the visual part of the brain.


>> So I dont think you could say someone thinks visually because that
>> would imply that they are ignoring all of their other senses which I
>> dont think is possible.
>
>That doesn't appear to make sense.

As I said above, all the bits of the brain involved in the senses are
used in some degree by the other bits. You have no control over them,
so to imply someone is only visual or verbal means they have some
mechanism to control their mental process - which they dont.

What they are probably trying to say is when they are conciously aware
of their thoughts, they seem to remember more imagry than sound (or
vise versa).

.

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