Yes, I agree!
Language is a symbol system widely acknowledged. We use it as a tool of
reasoning in our mind most time. It seems we think in language system.
As a matter of fact, that’s not what our brain really do. It’s only the top of iceberg.
I regard intuition as a kind of non-language behavior, we think in language so we
can’t perceive such non-language behaviors. If we treat symbol as a kind of
package of information.These intuitions may be something can’t be packed in language form by
the language nerve center which I consider as a packing center, and not
everything could be packed there.
Before we got language from outside in the babyhood, we may had set up our
own symbol system, a primitive one, from our perception of the world. This one
could include everything, after binding it with the language system outside. Only
a few related package could got verbal description.
This package principle exists
widely in our mind. As a kind of pattern, it exists in
visual system as well. If you reverse the book, it’s hard to read as fast as you can
before. You don’t have such patterns before, your existed patterns can’t handle
these characters.
I have an impressive experience on control using pattern. When a friend of mine
exchanged
his bike with me, we found out problems on other’s bike as soon as we rode on.
There was something wrong with pedals, handlebar and so forth. I never notice
these problems before, because I had “GOT USED TO” it. I had alredy formed a
pattern on riding bicycle. This is also a question which control system has to
answer.
may be a little far from Rick’s experience.
Best,
Frank
Rick Marken marken@MINDREADINGS.COM wrote£º
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[From Rick Marken
(2006.06.28.2300)]I had an interesting learning experience today at my racquetball game.
Before my game I was watching some other fellows play when an
attractive young lady, who was also watching, asked me about the rules
of the game when one of the players lost a point. I verbally described
the relevant rules (such as “the ball can only bounce once on the floor
before you hit it or it is the opponent’s point”) but made at least one
mistake (I said “when the ball is hit it has to hit the front wall
first”, but that is only true on the serve).It took me a second or two to recognize my mistake and that’s when my
revelation came. I never make such mistakes when I am playing; and I
don’t have the leisure during play to “decide” whether I’ve got the
rule right or not. I realized that what is actually going on when I
play racquetball is that I am controlling for rules which exist as
non-verbal perceptions. I know
instantly when a hit is fair or foul;
when a point is made and when it is not. I realized that rules are
not the verbalisms we use to describe them. Rules are non-verbal
perceptions of the states of lower order perceptions – of the
movements of the ball, the sequence of transitions in ball position
that make up each “shot” event.Verbal descriptions of rules are useful for trying to point out the
kind of perceptions to be controlled in order to be controlling for
(ie. following) the rule perceptions. Rule perceptions seem very
ethereal; they are not like color (sensation), object (configuration)
or even sequence perceptions, which seem to be of happenings in the
world “out there”. But rules are perceptions just like the perception
of color, object and sequence. They are just hard to become aware of
because they not obviously “out there”. What is “out there” are the
words – the audible sound objects – that
are used to describe the
rule perception. So I was seduced into thinking of the words as the
rule. But the words are just a pointer – and a rather blunt one at
that – to the perceptual variable (all the lower level perceptions)
that represents the possible states of the rule.When I became aware of the fact that the verbal description of a rule
is not the same as the rule itself, I got a better sense of what a rule
perception is even though I can’t see a rule perception in the same way
as I can see a color, object or sequence.Best regards
Rick
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