Visual Thinking
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2019 1:34 pm
It seems that the kind of mind space we now have is geometric and was developed as a result of the development of language. I would like to understand how this relates to visual thinking.
From at least the age of five, and thought my adult life, I have routinely done what I regard as visual thinking in the form of dreams and daydreams and goal-oriented imaginings of named and unnamed objects moving and interacting. Original work in engineering involves this kind of thinking. Would Jaynes classify this as thinking?
So much of what Julian Jaynes has written has been about language creating consciousness. Is there written material that addresses visual thinking? Did it exist in the bicameral mind?
Thank you for your help.
Jim Adrian
From at least the age of five, and thought my adult life, I have routinely done what I regard as visual thinking in the form of dreams and daydreams and goal-oriented imaginings of named and unnamed objects moving and interacting. Original work in engineering involves this kind of thinking. Would Jaynes classify this as thinking?
So much of what Julian Jaynes has written has been about language creating consciousness. Is there written material that addresses visual thinking? Did it exist in the bicameral mind?
Thank you for your help.
Jim Adrian