I guess your task for the next week is to try to notice if you ever use a sensory-phrase and then try to think about why you chose that phrase.
The fact that I will be observing myself would probably influence the results. It would probably be better to e.g. look at my older LW comments. So, here are the results from my 10 recent comments (excluding comments in this articles):
Well, okay, this seems to point toward a visual system.
(Now I wonder if I do the same thing when not writing in English. I mean, I mostly use English online, which is inherently a visual approach; I may be more likely to copy phrases of other people than invent my own spontaneously; and my vocabulary is more limited.)
The fact that I will be observing myself would probably influence the results. It would probably be better to e.g. look at my older LW comments. So, here are the results from my 10 recent comments (excluding comments in this articles):
1: “touch”, “seems”; 2: “look”; 3, 4, 5, 6: nothing; 7: “imagine”; 8: nothing; 9: “seems”; 10: “look”, “see”.
Well, okay, this seems to point toward a visual system.
(Now I wonder if I do the same thing when not writing in English. I mean, I mostly use English online, which is inherently a visual approach; I may be more likely to copy phrases of other people than invent my own spontaneously; and my vocabulary is more limited.)
If the canvas is innate the population-wide use of perception-related words should be stable. I checked that on the n-gram viewer and found some unexpected results: https://twitter.com/Gunnar_Zarncke/status/1575992631750168590