Intro slide to Lecture 2 – What We Think When We Think About Thought
As far as I can tell, here’s what’s happening:
- A primary user (left) access a thought-object (center) that is connected to a portable medium (top).
- Collective knowledge of the thought-object, combined with perceptions of the primary user’s use of it, flows back and forth between observers (bottom) and the thought-object. This changes it.
- The thought-object, combining the inputs and manipulations of the primary user, portable medium, and observers, projects an image onto a screen (right) …
- The primary user and observers now have access to a representation of the thought-object.
- They can now discuss it as a tangible entity, and change its properties by manipulating the representation or by adjusting variables in the thought-object itself.
Note: this is probably very similar to the process of making a thought “happen” in your own mind.
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