I see, that’s interesting. That feels recognisable: I think when I hear my own voice/internal monologue, it brings to memory things I’ve already said or talked about, so I dwell on those things rather than think of fresh topics. So I think of the monologue itself as being the source of the stagnant thinking, and shut it down hoping insight will come to me wordlessly. Having said all that about having an internal monologue, I now think I do have a fair number of non-verbal thoughts, but these still use some form of mental labelling to organise concepts as I think about them.
That sounds an interesting experiment to do, next time I need to travel bipedally I’ll get on to checking out those default conceptual autocompletes* that I get from different words. Thanks!
*Hoping I haven’t been presumptious in my use of technical metaphors—in the course of writing this I’ve had to consciously reign in my desire to use programming metaphors for how my brain seems to work.
I suppose among the questions I was interested in, was indeed what I should spend my time thinking about. I had the idea that there must be high-computational-requiring and low-requisite-knowledge-requiring mental tasks, akin to how one learning electronics might spend time extrapolating the design of a one-bit adder with a pen and paper and requisite knowledge of logic gates. But crucially, without a pen and paper. So in what area can I use my pre-existing knowledge to productively generate new ideas or thoughts without a pen and paper. Possibly advancing in some sense my ‘knowledge’ of those areas at the same time.
Sidenote: I like reading detailed descriptions of people’s thought-processes like this, because of the interleaved data on what they pay attention to when thinking; and especially when there isn’t necessarily a point to it in the sequences-/narrative-/this post has a lesson related to this anecdote-style, and when it’s just describing the mechanics of their thought stream for the sake of understanding another brain. For some reason it feels like a rich source of data for me, and I would like to see more of it. Particularly because it feels to give insight on a slightly lower level than cognitive biases themselves. I sometimes think I use my micro-thought processes to evade or disrupt the act of changing my mind simply because they have the advantage of being on a lower level. A level that interacts with feelings, of which I seem to have many. Alternately, my desire for detailed descriptions of people’s thought-processes might be down to my personality and not be something generally useful.
I see, that’s interesting. That feels recognisable: I think when I hear my own voice/internal monologue, it brings to memory things I’ve already said or talked about, so I dwell on those things rather than think of fresh topics. So I think of the monologue itself as being the source of the stagnant thinking, and shut it down hoping insight will come to me wordlessly. Having said all that about having an internal monologue, I now think I do have a fair number of non-verbal thoughts, but these still use some form of mental labelling to organise concepts as I think about them.
That sounds an interesting experiment to do, next time I need to travel bipedally I’ll get on to checking out those default conceptual autocompletes* that I get from different words. Thanks!
*Hoping I haven’t been presumptious in my use of technical metaphors—in the course of writing this I’ve had to consciously reign in my desire to use programming metaphors for how my brain seems to work.
I suppose among the questions I was interested in, was indeed what I should spend my time thinking about. I had the idea that there must be high-computational-requiring and low-requisite-knowledge-requiring mental tasks, akin to how one learning electronics might spend time extrapolating the design of a one-bit adder with a pen and paper and requisite knowledge of logic gates. But crucially, without a pen and paper. So in what area can I use my pre-existing knowledge to productively generate new ideas or thoughts without a pen and paper. Possibly advancing in some sense my ‘knowledge’ of those areas at the same time.
Sidenote: I like reading detailed descriptions of people’s thought-processes like this, because of the interleaved data on what they pay attention to when thinking; and especially when there isn’t necessarily a point to it in the sequences-/narrative-/this post has a lesson related to this anecdote-style, and when it’s just describing the mechanics of their thought stream for the sake of understanding another brain. For some reason it feels like a rich source of data for me, and I would like to see more of it. Particularly because it feels to give insight on a slightly lower level than cognitive biases themselves. I sometimes think I use my micro-thought processes to evade or disrupt the act of changing my mind simply because they have the advantage of being on a lower level. A level that interacts with feelings, of which I seem to have many. Alternately, my desire for detailed descriptions of people’s thought-processes might be down to my personality and not be something generally useful.