Subnostr

That is a great point. But having something on the tip of your tongue is also one of the most frustrating exercises in thinking. It feels incomplete. I have often wondered, however, if we could develop an internal symbol set that was not constrained by time to speed up thinking. By "constrained by time" I mean that words, being serialized sound pressure levels necessarily take time to utter and thus to think.

Since viseospacial reasoning can happen much faster it gives me hope that it is somewhat possible.

MichaelJ 1y ago

The Catholic writers on prayer seem to touch on these sorts of concepts. Prayer is defined as a "movement of the mind and heart towards God." The mystics speak of contemplative prayer as a wordless heart-to-heart communication with the Creator.

In my own experience, it seems that, at times, I pour out my heart to God far faster than I can formulate the words to do so.

The movement of the hear, mind, and soul come first, and words follow.

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Sats paa BTC 1y ago

I don't know if you're familiar with the concepts of a fasttrachk and a slow track neurologically speaking. The slow track is primarily processed in the left part of the brain and the content of this track is what we understand as conscious thought, our will, our capacity to make decisions. The fast track is primarily located in the right part of the brain and consists of our perception of others, atmospheres, emotions, and also to a large part our immediate response to anything unforseen.

The difference between the two tracks is responsible for the fact that to change our personality, esp. those parts of it that is 'dysfunctional', information isn't sufficient. And most often, I can try and engage my will as much as I like, it will most of the times easily be overtaken by fast track processes...

It seems to me that a part of your distinction between the slow thinking in words, and a much faster just pouring out to God whatever is within you, hoping that words will follow, has got something to do with this difference...?