Thanks Mike,
A great post that gives me something to think about.
I'm under time pressure for a little while and won't be able to respond for a few days.
Wondering if you have explored how emotion response systems are involved with the changes in attention that influence visual perception at the microsecond level? This seems promising for understanding various aspects of design activity. Chuck is strong on this if I remember right. If you have material on it, I'd be very interested. Mostly, my thinking is based on Damasio on this area.
All the best,
terry
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Terry:
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One suggestion to get started is that visual sketching can express less defined, more vague thinking. It can do this quickly and easily. At the fuzzy end of problem solving this seems like an advantage over maths. Also, related to the processing above, much of visual perception happens before conscious thought (bottom-up), but is influenced by it (top-down). We can 'tune' our neurons to be more responsive by 'thinking about it.' This seems particularly well suited to rapid divergent thinking and connectivity of creativity as we first find patterns then shift our thinking to 'see' it differently, literally. All this in fractions of a second. This seems another advantage over maths. But I'm starting to ramble...
Mike
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