Posts Tagged ‘ pattern-matching ’

Can you think without words?

September 15, 2011
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Yes, you can think without words; but most people are so well-schooled that words overwhelm their consciousness.

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Two Cultures

February 20, 2011
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Does your teacher explain things from simple axioms or does she explain by gestalt, showing you examples after examples until you eventually recognize the pattern? C. P. Snow wrote of two cultures.  The two styles of teaching yield an insight into the two cultures. Science is axiomatic.  Subjects that yearn to be sciences –...

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Intuition and Reasoning

November 15, 2010
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The brain can draw conclusions in two ways – logical and pattern-matching.  Another way to say it is – by reasoning or by intuition. Logical/reasoning (planning situation handling), we’re all familiar with.  We use facts and rules of logic to draw conclusions.  This is an advanced mode of thinking that took many eons to...

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